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April 14, 2025
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Where can I edit the sale details (sales price, selling expenses) for a rental property that I've sold?

  • April 14, 2025
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I must have entered the information at some point in the process, but now I want to go back and double-check as I don't think I had full details on selling expenses when I entered the info originally.

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    April 14, 2025

    It depends. The sale of rental assets should be entered into each asset by allocating selling prices and expenses to the sale of the asset(s). 

    • Open your TurboTax return > Search (upper right) > type rentals > click the Jump to ... link
    • Edit beside the rental and review each asset for your sales information.

    Example of arriving at the selling price and sales expenses for each asset in your rental activity.

     

    Example:  Original Cost (of each asset on your depreciation schedule)

    $10,000 Land                = 13.33% 

    $50,000 House              = 66.67%

    $15,000 Improvements  = 20%

    $75,000 Total                 = 100%

     

    Multiply each percentage times the sales price/sales expenses to arrive at each individual sales price/sales expense.

     

    If you converted each asset to personal use and select 'Special Handling' you may have entered your sale using the steps below.

    Sale of Business Property:

    1. Income and Expenses at the top
    2. Scroll down to Other Business Situations
      • For TurboTax Desktop: Business Income and Expenses > Less Common Business Situations
    3. Select Sale of Business Property
    4. Select Sales of business or rental property that you haven't already reported.
    5. Answer 'Yes' to Do all of the following apply...?
    6. Enter your sales information:
      1. Description of the Property (Machine Type)
      2. Sales Price/Sales Expenses 
      3. Date acquired and date sold
      4. Cost
      5. Depreciation
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