"Bel Canto" and "The Dutch House" author Ann Patchett brings her Parnassus Books store in at No. 16. Opening in 2011 in Nashville, Tennessee, it's named for the mythical mount in Greece that harbored ...

While you're allowed to deduct repairs as an expense, capital expenditures that you make to the property will need to be depreciated over the same life that you assign to the vacation house.