We told the property management company in May we wanted to rent it out as soon as possible after we vacated it. Isn't hiring a company to put a property "in service" equivalent, for our purposes, as putting that property in service since they were in control of the process from that point? The property was turned over to them - they controlled access via a lockbox - to rent out but later said they wouldn't do so until we'd done those prerequisite repairs.
That house had a small, doctor-recommended hot tub on a tiled floor due wife's disabilities. Its weight over six years damaged the tiles under it - an area about 6'x 6' - but no one could match the tiles anymore so had to replace them in the entire room. So is that a repair or an improvement?
Getting into semantics here. Time for a professional.
