Well, @Linda Weygant you need the air compressor for the nail guns!

We replaced it within about 6 hours and preserved the stay. 

You nailed it - one of our laws of tax planning is that tax agencies are your involuntary business parters

If you can't close on this yourself, you better hurry up and get a JV with someone who can, HML, something or your raising a flag yelling "please, screw-me-over, come-get-me" just daring fate to nail-ya.    

Most of the questions you had that you speculated on you pretty much nailed. 

So, if an investor refinances a property and takes out cash, there is no tax owed.Capital preservation through strategy.

In my experience no (2-4 Family transactions).The Occupancy can be supported by it's current and legal use, number of meters in conjunction with Department of finance (DOF)classification and housing preservation and developments (HPD) classification.Source:In early 2021 I was selling agent on two investment properties in the Bronx and Staten Island where this was an issue on a flip out.

--Getting a fix and flip loan for under 35k seems to be harder than nailing jello to a wall.

Obviously I would like to preserve the most amount of this fund in order to invest in RE.Thanks!

One of my first jobs after getting out of the military was starting my own business in the mortgage field services & property preservation on REO properties.