Extensions are likely granted, if needed.You will receive $3k relocation assistance at the end ( unless you have other liens, back due water/sewer/HOA etc. ) You can also stay in the home until the sale closes, which gives you at least a few months payment free to be able to figure out where you will relocate.

You can always ask your tax pro if you're unsure.To give you an idea, I built an extensive flow chart for our bookkeeping team to help decide if something should be capitalized or deducted for a rental property and this became our SOP for capitalizing vs deducting.

CAR met with them last week and are attempting to get an extension till April but no word on that yet.

My last one was my biggest one which included a 1000 sqft extension to an 1100 sqft single-family house.

This is my first extensively water damaged home that I may purchase.

The most common is to move in family or a rehab extensive enough that unit cannot be occupied.  

That said I tried to make a more extensive (yet not complicated) website on word press and it was a nightmare.

It’s fantastic to hear you have such extensive experience in the market—especially since you’ve been helping others navigate it since 2009.

But realized they were a lot more hoops to jump through with the city to make it a separate dwelling unit so we have opted to make it an extension of the home.

If you have any accounting questions, please feel free to reach out as I have extensive experience working with foreign nationals in the US.