You just may have to be patient and wait for the market to cycle down.

Finally she lists it, for a bit too much money, but miraculously, she gets a buyer. 

Now this is a different time in the market cycle, so those gains are unlikely.  

This is part of why REITS do a 7 year cycle, if your'e generating big losses  up front like from cost seg you'll want to swap those properties out and start over every so often.

I’ve actually had to switch from nice cotton towels to microfiber polyester towels because the dryer takes forever to dry 8 cotton towels and the washer takes over 1.5 hours to complete a cycle (being stackable it’s also a top load so w/out the agitator so I’m not even sure what kind of washing the thing is doing). +1 to anything with an agitator that’s more focused on washing than saving a bucket of water.

We are deep into an expansionary market cycle. 

However, there is a theoretical limit based on the thermodynamic cycle  as to how much they can heat a house when the outside temperature drops.

My concern is if I start renovations now, the life cycle replacement on these items starts ticking once they’re installed vs if I wait a little longer.

Would I also need to let the money sit in my account for 2-3 cycles (2-3 months) for it to show as technically my own funds or do I not need to do this for non-investment property since I will be owner-occupied?

It seems that at this point in the cycle the focus should be on generating some wealth and waiting to deploy it real estate in those developed markets until our next market pull/back recession within the next 2 yours.