How to depreciate a used rental trailer....27.5 years seams like a lot on trailer worth 2,500.

[BobKamman · Accepted solution]

Are you asking about a residential "Manufactured Home" (which is what mobile homes a/k/a trailers have been known as since 1974)?  It  may last longer than one that cost $20,000 but it may be in a location where rent is too high and it would cost too much to relocate it.