Apart from these percentages, healthy cash flow (i.e. income at least 1.5x monthly expenses) and the wiggle room to afford a visit from a handyman or a vacancy here and there are both soft metrics that I would focus on. 

Some areas are getting soft but it's serviceable for at least a couple years.

I figure two elements have to come together which are the bank approving the sale of the property which would be 50 to 60 percent of FMV and second the repairs, soft, and hard costs have to make sense.

Hi,Was looking for perspectives from Bay Area owners on the potential impact of seismic upgrades on soft story buildings.

Soft market forcing prices down spells good deals for investors in the future, especially if you hesitate a bit to let it develop.

Each side is 1400 soft.

I think Roofstock falls into the soft-core tech company category.

There are bunch of 1000 so ft home off 880 that you can buy for 250-350.  

Then, speak with an architect, commercial lender and a General contractor because you need to get an idea of the cost to build the new structure (price per Sq/ft) and determine your soft costs and hard cost.

In the short term, I am a bit bullish on the house prices in the Bay Area mainly because, of the low interest rates (easy money) have been driving the demand and this will most probably be the case for the next couple of years and mainly will drive prices up for the lower to mid level homes, the more affluent homes may see a bit of softness mainly because a good chunk of folks who usually buy those houses are tech and they are probably considering moving out of the bay area.