The only way to do that is to convert it to a rental before you sell.The IRS does not care if you buy bread and lunch meat and sell sandwiches or build or improve a house.  

I feel as if everyone here has a system in place and is doing laps around me at 100 mph while I put the pieces to the car together.

Not saying they did that, but they could have and the threatening and deceptive way they went about "requiring" signature makes me at least a little suspicious.

HML are curbing their borrowing due to current rates, so it might be more fruitful for you to partner with a private lender/partner that may be more open to flexible terms if there's enough meat on the deal. 

She said that she lost me at the refinance stage, and that pulling out all of the equity to just go buy another property creates a crushing debt service and is not sustainable and reckless. 

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I will definitely get a lawyer to represent me at court once the 30 days notice to quit expired.

That being said, I buy houses all the time where a title insurance policy is not available to me at the time of purchase.