Is there a limit to how much I can write off to offset tax on rental property income?

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Long term rental or short term rental?

You can take losses on either to the amount that is reasonable for the property. How it gets accounted (repairs vs capital improvements), when the property is “put into service”, your average length of stay, and your status (or not) as a Real Estate Professional will all determine what those losses can and can’t offset.

That being said, don’t let the tax tail wag the dog. Tax deductions and paper losses are only helpful to a point. Revenue and capital gains are still preferable to losses to most experienced investors. The key is to have “just enough” losses to reduce the impact of taxes on your overall growth of wealth.

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Also, if your losses exceed your income, they carry forward. So you can have $1m of losses in a year, but if there’s only $300k of income
to offset, then you’ll carry the $700k forward.

That’s why there’s really no limit to losses… just a limit to how much of the losses you can use.

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You can’t take a loss unless you are a real estate professional although you can carry forward a loss to future years and to the eventual sale of the property. So for one year the most you can write off is equal to that years revenue.

I’m not well-versed in any of this. Thanks for the replies. I meant more of ‘what amount of expenses are deductible.’

Look up the definition of “ordinary and necessary” in the tax code. That’s your limit.

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