Today's question:  "A property was my principal residence for the first 2 of the 5 years ending on the date of the sale of the property. For the last 3 years before the date of the sale, I held the property as a rental property. Can I still take an exclusion, and, if so, how should I account for the depreciation I took while the property was rented??"

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