Unless you can afford to hold them without producing for some time until everything stabilizes again.

You'll have a hard asset that produces income.  

Then when you are ready to move out, you replace yourself with a renter and now you have a stand-alone investment producing property. 

If your strategy is to create long-term income producing assets, you should definitely sell.If your strategy is to gain as much equity as possible by X date with as much certainty as possible, given the property's track record, you should probably hold until you get to that date.

Does it produce leads?

Putting a property under contract that's zoned R2 (has two rental income-producing properties) and need to do my due my diligence on getting the necessary variances to build 12-15 multi-family units.

I don’t own buildings in southside and Westchester Lagoon.

Order files extended  and suddenly the sawmills had to start producing more lumber and plywood.

@Tristen M Walker I would start by thinking about the types of investments available to you and what returns they might produce.

Apartments are what a lot of people are trying to get into because of the scalability factor as well as the amount of cashflow an investment group can produce through the asset.