Filtering AD property from get-ADUser - powershell

Question

so i am writing a script,
in our company we store users home-directory on network drives,
and when they leave we rename the directory by adding .left to the folder name,
example: "name.left"
and we actually used to do so by finding the user in AD
copying the content of the home directory property and renaming it.
so i got this so far :
$name = Read-Host 'User Name: '
$path = Get-ADUser $name -Properties homedirectory
Rename-Item $path {$name+".left"}
problem is when i get the home-directorys path in get-aduser it gives it with the standart get-aduser output, it just adds it to the output so i tried using filter :
$path = Get-ADUser $name -Properties homedirectory -Filter homedirectory
and it gave me an error, but not for the filter, now it doesn't recognize the user name i gave it.
now, I'm sure that there is a way to filter the string in the property.
and i get a feeling that the third line i wrote might be wrong as-well,
but that's my python brain trying to work with powershell :) so if enyone could help me with that one, i would really appreciate it,
and if anyone can point me to good powershell guides that would be really nice.
EDIT:
so i fixed it to look like that :
$name = Read-Host 'User Name: '
$date = Read-Host 'Date Please: '
do { $path = Get-ADUser $name -Properties homedirectory | select -Expand HomeDirectory $newname = {$name + "LFT" + $date}
Rename-Item $path $newname
Write-Host $name + 'changed' }
while ($name -ne 'exit')
and i get an error that the new name is a script and not a string so it cant run, you know a way to fix it?
Rename-Item : Cannot evaluate parameter 'NewName' because its argument is specified as a script block and there is no
input. A script block cannot be evaluated without input.
At line:6 char:19
+ Rename-Item $path $newname
+ ~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : MetadataError: (:) [Rename-Item], ParameterBindingException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ScriptBlockArgumentNoInput,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.RenameItemCommand
EDIT2
a fellow employee helped me out and this is the result:
it does exactly what i needed :)
$name = Read-Host 'User Name '
$homefolder = (Get-ADUser $name -Properties HomeDirectory).homedirectory
$date = Get-Date -UFormat "%d.%m.%Y"
ren $homefolder -newname ($homefolder + "_lft_" + $date)

Answer 1

With select-object you can filter out unwanted properties. It will still return an object tho. It has a handy argument named expand that will return single properties value:
$path = Get-ADUser $name -Properties homedirectory | select -Expand HomeDirectory