I am currently completing the pre-licensure course for my MLO license, aiming to become a mortgage broker specializing in primarily non-QM/hard money products, along with some conforming loans.

On either side of a 1031 exchange, the property must have intended to be held for a productive use in a trade or business.

The prob with putting cheap laminate over hardwood for the same cost is that you’re left with a fad less durable product and will be doing it again in a few years.

We have no problem with 1-4 units and know how to finance larger complexes (anything with a loan product larger than 1MM). 

The chart refers to LVT(LVP) products ( though the Adura may be a WPC which would be an engineered product).

If you’re talking several million dollars then look at an Insurance Investment product.  

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Did you GC the new one yourself, or did you buy from a production builder?

Accept the fact that your renovation is imperfect and move on to a more productive issue in life.More expensive fix: Install a plastic surround (or whatever kind of surround that makes you happy) and spend the bucks to fix the siding so that it looks like the window was never there.Most awesomest fix: Alter and/or move the header and install a 4' x 15" tempered glass transom window with a PVC frame and tile or granite trim above the point where water can reasonably enter the framing.

I've made it no secret on BP that I think the subject to product takes advantage of sellers that aren't savvy.