I no longer stay in hotels when vacationing with my family - $10 bottles of water and a cramped room - no thank you.

The only studying I did to pass that ridiculous test, that by the way has absolutely no bearing on reality and has many many questions and answers that are factually wrong (you read that right, the test has questions that are wrong, and you have to answer a bunch of the questions wrong to pass the test too, if you answer everything right you will 100% fail the test)(1), was the weekend Chamberlin Real Estate School 2-day crash course that "teaches to the test, not to reality." 

When I purchased my first rental property, a single family home here in Charlotte, 2.5 years ago I bought my tenants a bottle of their favorite liquor on their move-in day.

My point was more that it's not a useful litmus test.

They will conduct testing to determine if the growth is in fact mold and will be honest in their assessment if the tenants' negligence was the cause of the issue.

Don't allow them to pet-sit, test a rescue animal, etc.2.

There doesn't seem to be any case law in any state where the series was has been put to the test in court.

If you were buy say 4 months prior to that date and move out to start reno for 10 weeks then close 6 weeks later in order to hit the 2 year it doesn't sound like that wouldn't pass the sniff test, though you may successfully do it and not have the IRS question the time frame. 

I think it was only several hundred dollars to get my license (classes, tests, and license).

I whipped together a proof-of-concept that allows me to:Type an addressFetch all mailable unitsSend postcard invitations to residents that welcome them to take a one-minute survey RE the performance of their propertyI tested it out against my property and received one response out of 20 postcards - a very low conversion rate.