Taking taxes into account when purchasing a building is also so important to find tax savings or like you're saying - plan ahead to avoid any surprise tax expenses.

@Matthew GillSounds familiar, only about four years ahead of you.

Otherwise you will have to evict (or move in and be their room mate, or just go ahead and start your remodeling project with them living there, lol).

I went ahead a got couple of quotes for the repair.

I'm trying to get my head around it and it's not really clicking for me.  

Alot of contractors I see in my area have a tough time getting ahead simply because their not good at managing the business aspect of the business. 

I lived in the house.Skip ahead to today. 

If you have 100 people see your high price and none click, the site learns not to show you as much -- they'd rather show a property that does get booked.

I'd also go ahead and start shopping lenders for the refi- while you are still 6 months of seasoning away from the refinance, make sure you have one lined up that will do the refinance. 

Just a heads up* I tend to lead my community to doing runs-jogs-walks.