The contractor also has a brother that worked for him, who is a very nice guy and I don't believe would intentionally leave someone hanging, but I've gotten the same responses from him (the work will be completed), but no progress has been made.What are my options, legally?

My lack of knowledge & network in this area has driven me to express my intentions to the world and do WHATEVER it takes to accomplish this goal.

My real question is- Is it possible to move out of the whole house temporarily (when i've got an owner occupied loan) with the intention of moving back in once the downstairs tenant is evicted.

The intention was to stay in the unit for 1 year working remotely with intermittent travel back to California, however, I had a leadership change who no longer supported this arrangement.

If you buy the BP Intention Journal, I believe the Mastermind Group access comes with it, free.

My intention is to use that $45k to update my primary resd a little bit and then use the higher value of my home with these renovations to increase the limit on a HELOC that is based on the value of my home.

General advertising will get you a lot of phone calls from people you have no intention of lending to. 

The lenders told me that as long as I have full intention of getting the tenants out and try to move in within 60 days then i could purhcase the unit as owner occupied.

Don't worry, I have no intention of "Cali'ing" Idaho.

Up till two months ago both parties made their portion of the mortgage payment in a timely fashion for twenty years.The other owner to be spiteful has not made several consecutive mortgage payments from June 2020.The stoppage of payments is intentional.