Proving to the carrier that the building is a lower risk through methods like the wind mitigation report is your best bet to get a lower price without sacrificing coverage. 

@Paul Caporali remember this game is slow and steady.As time progresses you will find other opportunities to help you towards your next if you work at it.Keep building/creating equity you can use, keep networking so you can create relationships for the future(partnerships etc).

I'd rather bet on myself and live with the consequence than throw money out of state and lose most if not all control. 

Any thoughts on what to watch out for if I do progress to an agreement with him? 

Keep us posted here on your progress!

My wife and I are in a transition period -- one in which I retired my decade-long business, became a stay-at-home dad for our 2nd child, and am now doing RE investing fulltime (managing my local properties and making good progress on remote-investing in other parts of the country).  

They expressed that this defect had been communicated to RDU prior to the storm and had progressed to grow worse after the deluge.

I bet he/she came come up with some great options.

-based consultant Eilers & Krejcik, predicts that sports betting in Kentucky will go live as early as 2021 as part of a wave of 16 states that includes Indiana and Ohio. 

I would bet he would be willing to pay more for the place because of his past and knows how hard its to find a place.