Especially now, I am seeing a lot of people who bought during or right after the COVID pandemic and are in situations where they simply cannot sell their homes for any profit (many of them bought as new construction).

If I sense the buyer is cut from this fabric, I will negotiate extra hard against repairs to the extent they simply walk.

@Joshua Lanzieri when renovating older properties there are almost always negative surprises.Go watch any HGTV renovation show and most of them will have this as a cliff-hanger, forcing the choice of either going over budget or cutting back elsewhere.10% overruns happen often, but 50% is NOT acceptable!

Simply safety screening criteria.

My belief for SFR is that prices simply don't move much and grow slower than inflation.

If you are simply buying for a lifestyle investment, then you have much more leeway in what/where you might consider buying.

There is always SOME manual work, but you can cut out a lot of the back and forth-- definitley.

Generally there are multiple units for each "zone" if you will when I've seen them installed.Regarding your problem at hand, I personally would simply adjust your plan to move and make your initial plan to get the current issues resolved, while costly now, in the long run holding onto the unit will likely pay off. 

Simply analyze the strategy and how you could do it better or differently.

This would be the safest approach but also, anyone that is worried or has extra strict oversight in their area could simply avoid anything alcohol related in their packages.