Mortgage tax deductions for co-owned rental house

Mortgage tax deductions for co-owned rental house by luchen26@hotmail.com on January 28, 2019 @03:40

Me and my son purchased a $1.4 million house with $1.2 million of loan in 2018 and rented out a few rooms while my son lived there too. When filing tax return, can I claim tax deduction for $0.6 million of mortgage and my son also claims $0.6 million of mortgage? Or me and my son can only claim a total tax deduction of $0.75 million of mortgage for 2018? Thank you in advance for your pointers.

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Re: Mortgage tax deductions for co-owned rental house by Garry on January 28, 2019 @10:27	[ Reply ]

If you and your son are 50/50 partners, then everything (income, expenses,and depreciation ) is split half and half. You cannot claim the "mortgage". Only the INTEREST on the mortgage. Taxes and insurance you paid, are also deductions (split 50/50.) Any costs you paid to fix up the property BEFORE you started renting it out, must be added to the $1.4 mill you paid for the house, to get a final figure, to use for depreciation/tax purposes. Then, for dep. and IRS purposes, you must take out an amount equal to 10-15% for the value of the land. The IRS says land cannot be depreciated, so you set that figure aside. You will not use the land value again until you sell the place. Lets say you come up with a final figure for dep. purposes of $1.2 mill. That must be divided by 27 years, and then split between the 2 of you. So, your gross income, less any expenses and depreciation, is what you will be paying taxes on. (again, all split 50/50. However, my guess is, that figuring in your dep., you both will have a "negative" income (loss), that will be able to go against any other income you had last year. And you may very well have a "loss" for the next 5-10 years. The bad news is, you will have to "recapture" all those "losses" when you sell the place 20-30 years from now. That means you will have a huge "gain" that you have to pay taxes on.

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Re: Mortgage tax deductions for co-owned rental house by John on February 1, 2019 @11:16	[ Reply ]

First, and very important, note - pay attention to the personal use portion of this property. The expenses related to whatever portion your son are living in is not deductible. Back the land out of your depreciation calculation using the value obtained from the assessor at date of purchase. Don’t play games with 10% or 20% or whatever. That’s sloppy. Most important piece of advice, hire a CPA. It will save you money and problems in the long term.

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