California Rental Depreciation

My accountant has been completing my returns for my live-in rental property since 2006 (purchase of my 2 family home). I live upstairs, and rent out the bottom. When calculating the depreciation on the house, how does it change from years prior? The way I calculated it differs from the 07...

I bought a house 10 years ago. I moved out and rented it out since 2008. How do I depreciate it? Do I take the purchase price 10 years ago or take the government assessment value of 2008? The purchase price was 200K in 1998 and the assessment value in 2008 was 300K. Please help. John

I am using TurboTax Online to prepare my taxes and I live in California. I own a share in a rental property overseas. I entered depreciation in my federal return, but now I'm doing the California return, and it's saying that I can't use the same method of depreciation for the property. I...

I rented my house out for one year while on sabbatical. I claimed depreciation for the fraction of the year in 2006 during the time the house was rented, and now need to claim the remainder of that year for the time the house was rented in 2007. The problem is that my tax preparation software,...