Harsher but works.

We have an accepted offer, but she's more risk averse than I am and given external factors, now wants to walk away from the property.

The source of the water is external and can be remedied with a sump pumb/perimeter drainage inside as well as a dry well outside.

@Ben Lukes It's partially due to the pandemic, but I also don't like the economics of being so dependent on external forces, such as tourists arriving.

@Adrian Chu I hadn't considered condos that have HOAs, but that makes sense that they would take care of a lot of external repairs.

If you are in a war zone, you can add an external siren alarm as long as the city is okay with it.

Also you will always receive influence externally so at times you must block out the noise and listen to the voice within.  

We have not been able to inspect the inside the home yet, but it is in good condition externally.

The principal differences being:the electric baseboards (EBB) are install and controlled on a room-by-room basis; andEBBs rely on convection to permeate heat into the room (there is no fan circulating the air)In theory EBBs should have similar operating costs to a centralized electric forced air furnace (if not lower), however, in practice, that is usually not the case.Because of their reliance on convection, EBBs have slow recovery - i.e. if there has been a draft (someone opening an external door or window) or if the heat has been set back during the day and was turned up on the occupants return.  

The downside is that if we do anything external to the building it first has to be approved by the Hysterical Society ... err, 'historical'.