Currently an Air Force Firefighter, and sadly I only have a couple months left before medical discharge, I didn’t know about SkillBridge until about a few weeks ago.Thank you for the info!

@Wale Lawal  The location is actually near Memorial Hermann Medical Center, so we may look at renting to traveling nurses in the future. 

My husband is in the medical field and I'm in the real estate field. 

As an LLC, you could lose any homestead exemptions for property taxes.

In Brent's case, he could either stay in there until Oct 2021 to receive his Section 121 exemption for capital gains or he could rent it out for a year (or so) and then do a 1031 exchange thereafter. 

My problem or hurdle is I’m a resident of California and have an excellent job in the medical field, and I’m not willing to leave my primary Job just yet.

To keep things simple, let's assume the value of my mom's estate, including the whole value of the house, is below the estate tax exemption, so we don't need to worry about gift taxes or estate taxes.OK, now let's assume that I help my mom buy a house. 

Would she qualify for homestead exemption in order to get the STR permit?

That makes great sense.My only concern is that the property was held jointly with me and the other partner, I took the 121 exemption, and am now owning the property fully through LLC B and doing a 1031...within less than a year.  

The tenant (now owner) filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy on April 12, 2019 and the property was exempted.