TaxSrv wrote:

You probably forced the software to consider it investment property,
which it wasn't. We can in provable circumstances hang onto a former
home as investment property, but 9 months of just fixing up for sale
won't make it such property in IRS eyes, no way.

How about 14 years of fixing it up? That's what I did, and I have before and
after photos to prove it. I pretty much gutted the place and rebuilt from scratch.

George Patterson
Coffee is only a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to
your slightly older self.