We replaced the roof on a residential rental property and need to know what to use for the classification and recovery period to calculate depreciation?
Replacement of a roof on a residential rental property is a capital improvement to the structure. The roof is in the same class of property as the property to which it is attached. Since the property is residential rental property, the roof is generally depreciated over a residential rental property recovery period of 27.5 years using the straight line method of depreciation and a mid-month convention. You cannot write off (or take a loss on) any remaining basis in the replaced roof. For more information, refer to Publication 527, Residential Rental Property, and Publication 946, How to Depreciate Property.
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