I recently read an article in the Business Journal that vacancy rates in Houston average over 25%, the highest of any city in the country.I'll drive by on an elevated part of the freeway and look over at a building.

@Hadar OrkibiI think that area fared better, the elevation is a bit higher as you go south.

I'm sure you'll agree they are just too complex.I have also been evaluating whether I want to post 8.5x11 laminated elevations on each wall, inside the house, of what I want that wall to look like for the GC to reference while I am at work.

So I feel it's definitely a limiting factor to a sale.I feel like I'd be narrowing down my possibilities of a successful transaction telling the seller I'll cover it and expect a unrepresented buyer working on their credit to bring a huge EMD, Purchase Option, and/or pay elevated rent. 

As for goals, biggest goal at this moment is learning more about the business side of things, networking and elevating my rental as a business and not just an afterthought.

(what I have been told anyway) I own a property that is the second highest elevation in the whole county.

I also have plans, elevations and possibly 3D renderings to show.

And if the home is designed with them in mind (ADA compliant bathrooms/kitckens, elevators for a multi-unit, etc.), it just seems like a good way to go.

Flood insurance is property-specific depending on the flood zone the property is in and the property's elevation as determined by a surveyor on an elevation certificate.

Hotel even in San Juan are mostly on generator so no elevator service.