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    Disposing of a rental on Lacerte

    Rental House has been forclosed client walked away non-recourse loan no 1099-a or c.
    I spoke with Lacerte about how to get rid of this rental this year and here is how they told me to do it I have three deprecation assets the house, land and cabinets, property has no income at all and no expense at all except that they had depreciation:
    Step 1: Go to the rental screen and put a 2 in delete next year. This part ok I get
    Step 2: Go to the deprecation screen and under General Disposition Information enter date disposed. Ok sounds good
    Step 3: In deprecation screen under sale of Asset put sales price as -1 = none. ok
    Step 4: Go to forms and look at the 4797 look at box 2 Q gain or loss write down that number. Ok Getting a little confused now in my case the number was -148000
    Step 5: Go back to detal in the deprecation screen General disposition Information put the -148000 as a Basis adjustment. Ok this just is not working in my mind right is this really right to do?
    Step 6: go back toe the forms 4797 and now box 2 Q is now 0.

    I am just not understanding this concept so they have no gain or loss is this right? Don't I need to recapture any prior depreciation? Do they still get to write off the deprecation for the days before they lost the house even though they have no income? I don't know if I have been up to many hours or what but for some reason this is just not clicking with my mind

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    Lacerte was probably assuming zero gain/loss because they don't have the information necessary to calculate the gain/loss. It would be better if they actually said they couldn't do it rather than try to do it with guesses.

    Try using the worksheet in Pub 4681 on the top of page 9.

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