$60K loan - 30 to purchase and 30 to rehab. 9 month loan and then plans to resell after rehab. I think this is a home purchase loan. Our lender thought it was home improvement. I am under the impression in this case that the home purchase overrides home improvement. Can someone comfirm?

Purchase always trumps home improvement, home improvement trumps refinance.

A little trick I learned from here on BOL:

Purpose codes:
1 = Home Purchase
2 = Home Improvement
3 = Refinancing

For multiple purpose loans, whatever purpose is first in the order is how the the loan is reported. Therefore a purpose of home purchase is always the #1 reporting purpose, HI #2, and refinancing #3. Hope this helps.