@William Schlicher -If your primary motivation to sell is "the constantly anti-landlord policies in Alameda county and fear of getting stuck with tenants who do not pay and who we cannot evict", then local properties won't mitigate that fear.

How would you mitigate this issue?

@Abam create a mitigation plans for drainage, communication with the Houston development team, materials and labor.Before this pandemic I used to buy 1 sheet of plywood for $13.50/sheet.

The one silver lining was that the appraisal came in 21k over what I had anticipated, which helped mitigate our losses.

Yes, I would make more money to wait to the end, instead of $25k I'd get $31k, but that doesn't mitigate the risk. 

Codes change, updates are required, impactors mitigated, it's a heck of a process. 

Property Inspection, Termite and 4 Pt/Wind Mitigation (walk every unit if possible)21. multi over $1 million will need a Phase 1/Environmental report.

These are questions only you can answer and may help inform your decision.You will take a markdown if you sell with a wet basement, versus a mitigated problem.

You will also get an idea as to how much they will pay you.Then advertise on GoSection8 for free.Some of the things I do to mitigate a lot of the nonsense.No smoking AT ALL.

If you want to avoid sprinklers, then other changes will be necessary to mitigate fire spread by means of fire rated partitions, separations, etc.