They're hoping to stimulate the economy and restore confidence because rates influence consumer and business confidence, at least that's what I think they're trying to do, let's see if it's enough to counter what's been going on.

I love seeing restored historic buildings.

Then hopefully end up with a profit of the value we added.Then at that point my home equity would be restored.  

However, I've used nearly all of my VA entitlement and I need to restore some of my entitlement in order to purchase or complete the VA Cash Out refinance for the 3rd 4plex I'm going to house hack.

Purchase price: $110,000 Cash invested: $100,0001939 and 1930 historic homes I restored and rent, The two story is now AirBnB and the bonus is that half of the large lot is empty.

Since most of the stuff is taken out, do I need mold restoration done?

The last spending to get restored back to normal is the discretionary stuff.

If it starts to come unglued (defaults) harry dent will be right, $600 gold, 80% off the stock market, and real estate cut in half...so pray they have the tools to restore confidence

I would bring in a couple of restoration companies to get the hard facts about the extent of the fire damage.

If you have a de minimis safe harbor election in place for the tax year and expenses related to the building structures subsystem are more than $2,500, the expenses would be capitalized.It might make a lot of sense to forgo the de minimis safe harbor election and apply the betterment, adaption, and restoration (BAR) tests instead if doing so doesn't jam you up in other areas.