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You SHOULD NOT treat any time before he moved out of his other place of residence back into the house in question as time living in this house.
you said "The property was for about 1 year before the client moved back" ...
Did you leave the work "empty" out of the above sentence ? If so he would have moved back in mid 2020.(Relative moved out Mid - 2019 and house was empty for a year).
If I am interpreting this correctly the most time he could have lived there (as his primary residence) after he moved back in was about 18 months.
Unless he lived there between some additional time between "Late 2016" and when it became a rental he does not meet the definition of "Primary Residence for over 2 years of the last 5" and Does Not Qualify for the exclusion. Claiming the exclusion when the taxpayers does not qualify would be a big mistake on a preparer's part.
If you still wish to claim the exclusion it all goes on the home sale worksheet - there is on Line 30 a place to enter depreciation allowed. You will need to fill out line 32 and 33 here also (possibly some others.)
If you are not claiming the exclusion I think it goes to form 4797.