Also keep in mind its 24 months technically not 2 years, so as long as you have 24 months of the past 5 years (does not need to be consecutive) Your good

This happened for 2 consecutive months.

Whole $ does not need to be "expensive", just the action of experiencing significant rent increases consecutively creates a psychological feeling of "expensive", even though the whole $ may be actually cheap in market whole $ sense. 

The market has now experienced six consecutive monthly declines in asking rent, for a cumulative total of 1.2%.

The recent consecutive mistakes have been so EGREGIOUS, that I honestly thought that it was either A SICK JOKE, or some coordinated attempt to push out some of their tenured clients.

For those curious, if this applies to them, just follow these general principals: To qualify for the Section 121 exclusion you must: Must live in the home in the past 2 of the 5 years 24 months non consecutive required Must have owned the home for at least 2 years Only one spouse needs to meet the ownership testBoth spouses need to meet the use test Neither spouse has excluded a gain / used section 121 in the past two years Must file jointly for the 500k exclusion

So the use of that property will appear on two consecutive tax returns. 

We need at least two to three consecutive months of downward trends before the Federal Reserve considers cutting rates.

The advertisement must be published once a week for three consecutive weeks prior to the sale of real property.

Suddenly,rent checks due on the 5th started arriving Florida from Ohio on the 22nd,each one clearly post-marked 5th of the month.So we couldn't charge late fees.For 8 consecutive months.After I figured it was either the USPS had been taken over by aliens or there was a boyfriend that worked at the post office,I changed the lease terms to require only cashier's checks.All checks have miraculously started arriving on time again since that change was made.