@Michael L. that might benefit you if you are a professional trader and have trader tax status so you would be able to deduct losses that would be regarded as ordinary rather than capital.

They cite rebuild costs, however, I'm a residential builder and find their reasoning greedy. 

Don't get greedy.

Now, that is fine for a private day trader in the stock market, but mortgages are not stocks or bonds in an efficient market.

Do the surviving partners get that investors shares or do they have to deal with relatives that may be ignorant and/or greedy?

So do not be so greedy that tends to keep more money in your pocket instead of saving up for it in your reserve account.  

Because realtors can sometimes be greedy, they won't always show properties that are for sale by owners because commission isn't included in a sale.

Considering re-listing them at a higher price but I don’t want to be greedy. 

It seems nowadays that RE mentors provide the best information when they start in this business and become very greedy at one point and separate the information into packages to make more money.

Then Covid and weather locked down Canadian mills.Crude went up due to Russia and traders bidding up.C.