I've never seen the Renovation Status pop up as a Find option... at least you got lucky a few times!
Generally, I change my Renovation Filter to one that only shows the elements with the status I want to select and alter. This requires that your template have every combination of Renovation Filters available (new only, demo only, existing only, new + demo, new + existing, existing + demo, and show everything).
Chuck Kottka
Orcutt Winslow
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
ArchiCAD 25 (since 4.5)
Macbook Pro 15" Touchbar OSX 10.15 Core i7 2.9GHz/16GB RAM/Radeon Pro560 4GB