Don’t expect much appreciation, but there’s not much fear of values going down either. 

I was thus expecting six months of depreciation despite only owning the property for two weeks in 2017 (in exchange for no depreciation 5.5 months sooner ~27 tax returns from now).However, Turbo Tax is using a mid-month convention and only giving me two weeks of depreciation.

That being said, I would expect you would be between $600 and $900.

In all honesty I only expected 1-2 people to even comment, and now I have an understanding of what everyone wants if they are to invest or even just to try to understand.   

Good to know, since not being an expert on cars, I'd expect some type of hazard to come up during the actual work.

With the change in management from the previous owner, we expected a bunch of maintenance requests would come in the first few months and then slow down over the rest of the year and that's exactly what happened.

I wouldn't ever recommend buying a property purely for expected appreciation.

I’m expecting it to come in about 40-50k short to finish.

Don't really see why I would need an attorney unless a dispute arises, than expect I could hire one?             

Usually it revolves around life-safety features like smoke detectors, egress, etc, but depending on the locale can include that it’s reasonably clean, no broken windows, etc.