Your move would be temporary.

Thanks for all the great input, I did have a video, it's not an emergency but I have had it snake and was told that was a very temporary fix.

So with that said, please share your frustrating stories to take my mind off my current (temporary) bump in the road. 

However these are temporary loans (1 year or less) and you will have to refinance after renovations.

http://www.har.com/content/newsroom/Houston Real Estate Highlights in October Single-family home sales continued their post-Hurricane Harvey rebound as volume rose 7.5 percent year-over-year with 6,381 units sold;Single-family home sales remain 2.8 percent ahead of 2016’s year-to-date volume;Total property sales increased 6.6 percent with 7,614 units sold;Total dollar jumped 10.8 percent to $2.1 billion;The single-family home median price rose 3.9 percent to $226,491, which represents an October high;The single-family home average price increased 2.7 percent to $285,858, also the highest level for an October;Single-family homes months of inventory grew year-over-year to a 3.9-months supply, but is down from a 4.3-months pre-Harvey peak – the result of a surge in consumer demand for housing;Townhome/condominium sales rose 5.8 percent, with the average price down 1.1 percent to $195,393 and the median price down 3.1 percent to $153,000;Leases of single-family homes rose 13.6 percent with the average rent up 2.8 percent to $1,776;Volume of townhome/condominium leases jumped 34.8 percent with average rent up 2.9 percent to $1,533.HAR still encourages anyone who has housing available for temporary occupancy (up to 12 weeks) to please post it on our Harvey Temporary Housing page at www.har.com/temporaryhousing to provide housing to those in need.

Most all of the structures are fairly temporary in nature of construction, so down the road, re-purposing the land would be incredibly easy. 

The basement under this large room was full of water and had a bunch of temporary support posts pushing the floor joists up (physically bowed up).

Okay, what exactly is the “temporary occupancy period”?

When we first started, we used Expensify as a temporary solution. 

@Nick KatsikisThe source is the Temporary Regs to Section 469 of the Internal Revenue Code.