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Hi, I'm hoping someone has encountered this situation and knows the best way to make entries in Lacerte for depreciation for a rental that was temporarily converted to personal use. Thank you in advance for reading the background:
Taxpayer converted a basement in their personal house into a rental unit and started renting in March 2020. I set up depreciation based on original purchase price, which included the basement with land/building broken out by percentages found on the property tax statements. The basement conversion to living quarters cost just over $100,000. The square footage of the apartment is 27% of the total house. On depreciation screen 22, I entered placed in service dates of 3/1/2020 for all 3 assets (original building, land and the remodeled basement apartment) and I entered .27 under "Percentage of business use" for the original building portion. The addition is 100% for the rental, so I did not enter a business percentage.
Due to covid, the taxpayer stopped rental for the first half of 2021 but used the apartment to care for family members. They rented the apartment from July - Dec 2021 and then took it out of use again so not contiguous business v personal use. They plan to rent again sometime but I don't know if/when so I need to track properly.