It is one of the best examples of City Council and local registered community organizations huddling together to create restrictions intended to thwart development but here they are doing it in a manner which will leave new housing stock in the dust relative to other neighborhoods thanks to terrible design restrictions.

(to prevent excess costs) We don’t have access to WiFi in those units.

- Can their system adopt special instructions like, where techs can access a master key to enter an apartment?

Section 8 voucher has income restrictions can be found https://www.huduser.gov/portal....  2nd website you should be exploring PHA website to determines eligibility for the program. 

If you want to make improvements on the replacement property you will need to either have the cash set aside to make the improvements, or after you complete your exchange immediately do a cash out refi one of the properties to access some cash. 

Up front fees of about $8k seemed worth the investment to have access to $200k at my fingertips.  

Make sure it is somewhere easily accessible that doesn’t require any tools to turn off.  

Paid cash for the purchase, and then financed into a HELOC to pull most of my funds back out and have access to the remainder if needed.

Overall Austin is currently a Buyers market but there are some neighborhoods that are Sellers markets due to good schools, accessibility to Tech hub job areas, parks, entertainment etc.

But, in today's market, especially if you are not a builder already with your own teams, the cost to buy an existing property is often cheaper than constructing.But like Jaron noted, you have access to capital through some form of refi on inherited property, and that gives you options on how best to invest that money.