The house flooded during Harvey here in Houston but only due to the drainage pipe in the street collapsing causing the water to back up and to flood the home.

It's important to listen to your intuition (gut feeling or spidey-sense too), but back up your decisions with real data.

Hang tough, get back up, and take one step forward any chance you can. 

I feel like it would take many more doors to get back up to that cash flow amount ...

If it's rotted bad studs can always be sistered on before covering it back up as well.

I have been working hard to clean things up but i had my head in the sand for a good many years so it will take a little while to get things back up to my pre-2008 credit score of over 800. 

To back up that belief, my wife and I dedicate a minimum of 10% of our income to giving each month, and we also make additional one-off donations as well to charities that positively impact our local community. 

If you want to continue doing it, I would suggest that you have a back-up payment method like Cozy.co already in place and make sure that the tenants know what it is and how to use it BEFORE it's necessary.

Be sure to list some back up property on the exchange.

at least you will be able to back up your results with facts and not opinion or miseducation.