To qualify for the exclusion of gain on the sale of your primary residence you must live in the dwelling for at least two of the last five years. You may be able to use a Like-Kind exchange to defer the gain because it was a rental property, but you will still have to pay the gain eventually- as opposed to eliminating it with the exclusion.
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