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You can depreciate your rental property if it meets all the following requirements: 1  You own the property. 2  You use the property in your business on income producing activity. 3  The property has a determinable useful life. 4  The property is expected to last more than 1 year.
The IRS lets you depreciate residential rental property over a period of 27.5 years. You can write off anything other than the land, since land is non-depreciable. For example, consider a $400,000 rental house whose value gets allocated between $75,000 of land and $325,000 of building.