You’re going to get a lower selling price for occupied properties just as you will get an even lower price for selling a portfolio of homes.

You have to be an active manager and many current owners are not wanting a second job and are selling.

In normal times i would think selling is typically the smarter financial choice, but at the current time keeping may have a significant finance (due to low interest rate) advantage.Here is a list of why adding ADUs in my CA market is typically a poor RE investment:1) The value added by the ADU addition is often significantly less than the cost of adding the ADU.

The owner has taken it off market and I'm just trying to explore my options of selling it off market for a deeply discounted price.  

I'm very likely to sell the property but wanted to gather opinions from this forum first.

In early 2023, we decided to sell the property as the market had appreciated significantly.

Git 'er done in 31--time to sell and take some profits.Before "the market" can go up, it first has to stop going down. 

It is sometimes better not to sell to this buyer than deal with the year long headaches that follow.

I would sell.

After they renovate, they sell it to Doorvest clients (people like me) for ~150K-170K.