I'm not sure if it is sustainable.

@Timothy Walker  - your statement of "a social person just not very social" resonates with me. thats the way I am. my real estate career accelerated when I began to work on my people side of this buisness.

Worse yet, some of them are in such poor condition that the best choice will be to bulldoze it but the area won't sustain the cost to rebuild.As always, there will be opportunities from this inventory, but buyer beware and understand what you're buying.

In the mean time I'm working on laying a foundation of sustained growth in real estate.  

The Appraisal Institute has tow 2-day classes on valuing Sustainable Amenities and Solar.

It was like it’s own little sustaining city.

What kind of sustained downturn would it take to offset that kind of immediate hit. 

To do that without pay isn't sustainable.

I generally have a strong emotional reaction and then work to a more logical, sustainable response...the trick is getting to that logical response before I write an email/place a phone call etc..The fire marshall is a pretty reasonable guy and indicated that he'd be willing to work with me on it, but I'm probably going to have to spend some money/time convincing neighbors to turn the existing 10 ft. alley into something close to an 18 ft one. 

That being said, rents are leveling out right now, the insane appreciaion we saw last year (40% YoY in August) and rent increases (12% in 2020) aren't sustainable and shouldn't factor in to your numbers.