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You cannot deduct passive losses if you do not have any net income from your property rental for the tax year. Passive losses cannot reduce your income from wages, but you can defer the losses to future tax years or deduct any losses carried forward when selling the rental house that generated the loss.
If you paint the rental yourself, deduct the cost of paint. Painting a rental property is not usually a depreciable expense. In most cases, however, you can write it off as a deductible business expense instead. The IRS divides any work you put in on your rental into improvements and repairs. You claim the total cost of repairs on your taxes, but depreciate improvements.