I also did not say it must be stored, just that your local laws would apply.

If the resale market is not quite right, you can convert the property to a rental for up to three years prior to sale, and still apply the capital gain exclusion on the sale of a primary residence to your sale profit.

Applied Accurate Knowledge is Power"You can learn knowledge but do nothing with it and get nowhere.

You should be able to determine the adjustment to be applied for properties close to commercial or on certain busy streets.Who can best analyze comps?

Don't know if either applies to your property, but if it does this could be the reason.

The lead procedures only apply to houses built before 1978.

This should apply no matter if there is low inventory, high inventory, motivated seller, unmotivated seller,spring, summer, winter, fall, today, tomorrow, 20 years ago, 20 years in the future, etc.

@James Syed These rules are only for quick analysis and you have to learn how they are applied for them to be useful.

We don't really know yet, but have some good ideas, of the impact of the SAFE Act and Dodd-Frank on these matters.A straight option and a lease is not impacted by these regulations, but if any financing arrangement is made like crediting rents to a purchase, then they may apply.

Also, getting to the net operating income (NOI) is different for nearly everyone as most people are going to apply different variables to the equation (management fees, vacancy rates, etc).