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$250,000 Home Rental Exclusion

8/15/2018

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There was a time when you could convert your rental property or vacation home to a principal residence and then use the full $250,000/$500,000 home-sale exclusion to avoid taxes, those days  are gone!

Today the $250,000/$500,000 exclusion works quite different.  You are required to divide your period of home ownership into the following two categories:
  1. Qualified Use:  Which means the time you or your spouse uses the home as your principal residence.
  2. NonQualified Use:  Which means any period in 2009 or later in which neither you nor your spouse uses the property as a primary residence. 
You allocate gain on the sale of your home between the periods of qualified and nonqualified use, and the gain allocated to nonqualified use doesn’t qualify for the $250,000/$500,000 home-sale exclusion. 

It is important to note the exception to the nonqualified use is that nonqualified use doesn't include rental use during the five-year period that's after the last date you and or your spouse used the property as your principal residence.

If you will like to discuss this further please don't hesitate to contact us!
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