The next step is to finish up the details on our new home and rebuild our cash reserves - which will be easier with two rent streams now coming in.

I am in the process of rebuilding my credit and wanted to know what score to aim for while re-building my credit.

It needs complete demolition and rebuild.

Long term: there will be people who choose not to rebuild if their home burned down, so there may be some land available in residential neighborhoods that would be easy to build on. 

They're going up because repair/rebuild costs have skyrocketed and other inflationary factors, not to mention some recent big claims (Hurricane Ida / 2021 storms - think Texas power failures) and also a surge in death claims related to COVID. 

Those of you who have never lost on a deal before, those of you who have never had something fail then have to rebuild it again, go right ahead and keep doing your thing.

If your properties are all cashflowing use that, and other income, to rebuild your reserves.

I'm rebuilding my marketing follow up system and I'm looking for a phone service that can handle incoming texts and phone calls, then run a text auto responder for follow up.  

and you have insurance to cover property damage -- so the worst case is that you'll spend time and effort rebuilding and you'll need to help your (still living) tenants find a place to live.

The owner's agent (not a realtor, just a friend, I think) believes that the property needs a new roof and he estimated $50k for a re-build, but I have no idea how experienced this guy is with such things.