In 3-4 years, you will not have a lot of equity in the home, so I'm not sure you'd want to refinance (if you plan on trying that, talk the bank because ending your mortgage before the term is up (ie 1 yr, 2 yr) comes with a heavy interest penalty (basically you have to pay out all of the interest remaining for the rest of that term).As for renting vs investing elsewhere-run the numbers as to what your payments would be if you bought a house including insurance and property taxes and repairs vs renting. 

About 30k remaining in repairs, which I can either pay for in cash or take out a loan and pay off later with the 160k.

So the mortgage would remain unchanged but the ex could be removed from the deed?

In both of those situation the land remained whole as one tract essentially owned by the condo association (HOA) while the individual units were sold to individual owners. 

The median price of homes for sale this May remained relatively stable compared with last year, growing by 0.3% to $442,500.

Even if your mother approves using some equity from your home as a down payment for a second property, you will still need to qualify for the remaining amount needed for the purchase.

Those are really the only remaining things I can think of that the third party software does for me...

Now that the restraining order has been lifted, she is still a leaseholder and is entitled to enter the property to collect her belongings.Make sure to give adequate notice to the remaining tenant and conduct a thorough screening process.

What goes around.....I, personally am trying to forgive and move on hoping that I have enough years remaining to attain to that forgiveness because I know it's required of me if I expect to be forgiven on the "other side".This has been a tremendously humbling and humiliating experience (me writing this) and I am sharing this so that possibly others may be spared the experience and I hope this missive is timely enough to accomplish some of that.

We expect to have holding costs of $15k to get through the off season and the condo is pretty updated so we would only be spending $10k in renovations (updating the bathroom and then finishes in the remaining rooms).