You're going to owe her something, probably up to 6 years worth, but enough to find a way to get her on her feet, and if that takes a year to get certified as a teacher in AZ then that's what it's gong to be.

How odd about the house sale thing. My aunt sold a house there last year and we visited to help her re-do it before the sale, we did some serious work on it, plumbing style, and no one said she couldn't put the recently re=modeled house on the market. Come to think of it, while we were there we looked at a lot of houses and it was CLEAR that they'd had recent serious renovations, that's what flipping is all about and a whole lot of people get ot the point of selling thier own home and do a big re-do to update & make it more marketable.

I can't imagine that the law is exactly as it sounds, the way you're putting it. Could you ask whoever told you this about the chapter, section & verse of what law prevents you from selling it in Arizona? I am DYING to know for my own purposes (ok, my aunt's, but it's the same thing)... who knows I might learn something new.

But what I think is going to happen is I'll look at the law they cite and realize they gave you information that's a little skewed. I mean, they DO have flippers in Arizona and those people do all kinds of renovations up to the day they're putting the thing on the market!