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You can depreciate the building and improvements but not the land when you buy a rental property. Because land is not a depreciable asset, you must allocate a portion of the purchase price to its value. This is how you go about determining the allocation.
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- Three methods of determining the ratio that you can use to allocate value between improvements and land
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