With that in-law, you can either live in that or the main house, and subsidize the rest (or ALL) of your mortgage.

When you have a box that has very hot air and very cold air outside the box, the hot air wants to seek that cold to restore some balance between the two.

We restored as many of the original features of the 1800 home and then we added the best of the best for everything.

Restoring the house -- adding new HVAC system, resurfacing all walls, painting, replacing light fixtures, and all appliances; carpet, crown molding, etc.

I flip fire-damaged properties and own a fire damage restoration company.

Is it being restored to like condition, or are they making other changes like color or style?

We try to give a pristine unit to the tenants when they move in, and restoring them time after time to this condition is costly at turnover time, even with good tenants.    

As a fire-damage Restoration contractor myself, I’m very sorry to hear about this, however I agree with @Chris Seveney’s assessment—probably not a fight you are going to win.

I flip fire-damaged properties and own a fire damage restoration company.

Those with more access to cash will do more deals, those who do not have access to cash will be sitting on the sidelines until liquidity is restored to the market and guidelines start opening up.