I personally own/live in a historic home and I can promise you this: it will cost you more - a lot more - to renovate and maintain the property. 

Aside from the George Foreman Grill (yeah, those things are awesome right) celebritism for sales is historically a rule of thumb to gauge hokum not quality.Who knows, maybe Pace is "different", we will see.  

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:Class A Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, 3-5 years for positive cashflow, but you get highest relative rent & value appreciation.Vacancy Est: Historically 10%, 5% the more recent norm.Tenant Pool: Majority will have FICO scores of 680+ (roughly 5% probability of default), zero evictions in last 7 years.Class B Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, decent amount of relative rent & value appreciation.Vacancy Est: Historically 10%, 5% should be applied only if proper research done to support.Tenant Pool: Majority will have FICO scores of 620-680 (around 10% probability of default), some blemishes, but should have no evictions in last 5 yearsClass C Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, high cashflow and at the lower end of relative rent & value appreciation.

.- Market Appreciation is the least predictable, but historically, where you will make the most money.

We are in uncharted territory and there is no historical reference we have to suggest the most prudent course of action.

Last week a historical home in a California state park was burned to the ground by an arsonist. 

I think there are two maybe 3 ways to look at this in my mind.  1) you go into it and bring it all up to modern standards but using that old charm to basically take what is there bring it up to modern standards and rent it out essentially I'm thinking cocktail bar or something trendy like that.2) most banks are on really good centrally located real estate if this is true, then I'd consider it for the dirt, plan to scrape the lot and go vertical with whatever the highest and best use is.3) a kind of combo of the two, if the lot is in a good location and its doable, pull the vaults or other "character pieces" out of the building, scrape the lot, and build whatever is best suited for the site there, but incorporate those historical pieces into the final designs.Is the site near a major retail area? 

So even a sponsor saying historical 30% return may or may not be counting all their offerings nor has that been verified by a third party.