If you rented the home to others because you were on "qualified extended duty" with the military you can "suspend" that period of time in the capital gains calculation for "the last five years" timeframe.

Protect your lease option with a memorandum, pay the mortgage to bank directly.For the tenant buyer do 12 month lease and tell them you will extend if they need time to get the mortgage.

Instead of giving me the issues once, every time they came back they found new ones which extended the process about three months.

See if they will work with you to extend the terms.

1) You may want to consider growing slower without over extending yourself when it comes to buying up new properties and using your other properties as collateral.

One survey reports that 53 percent of Americans prefer neighborhoods that are close to work, restaurants and shops, and 61 percent prefer smaller housing to long commutes.Hotels are seeing an uptick in extended-stay guests.

The contractor commented that while the elevators and sprinklers are grandfathered in, if I had to extend them in any way the grandfathering would be lost and I would have to replace them all with new code-compliant systems.If you got a new tenant that was perfect but required additional fire suppression, would you want to replace the whole system for them or would you let the space go vacant?

You can always extend their contracts. 

But if the business is ongoing, they borrower may be counting on the bank extending their loans each time they're due.  

Mortgage Rates Highest in a Month TodayMortgage rates continued heading higher at a fairly quick pace today, extending the move that began after yesterday's Fed Announcement.