I will need to explore the 1031 route and weight it against my opinion on the market. 

Chad Littell from CoStar notes that while institutional investors adjusted their strategies early in response to rate hikes, individual investors have only recently begun scaling back.July Sales ReportAccording to CoStar’s July Commercial Repeat-Sale Indices (CCRSI), the equal-weighted U.S. composite index, tracking smaller market sales, showed only a 0.2% price increase from June, with prices down 0.7% year-over-year, marking the first annual decline since 2012.

And it’s important that none of us underestimate your reality - regardless of our own experiences and desire for justice at any alleged cost.Interesting set of facts and events, and I wish the best for you.

I would find out their DSCR ratio and make sure you can hit their minimums either upon purchase or when they desire those ratios (maybe after stabilization in a year or so).5) Unit Turns/ Re-Leasing.

I'm originally from San Francisco CA (started off as an out of state investor in 2021) and have no desire to become a landlord in CA. 

Things are going well with this property which has sparked this desire to seriously pursue Real Estate Investing as a full-time business!

If you want to live in one of the older neighborhoods (which are very desirable) that's just what you get in 100 year old buildings.

Sell and buy something different maybe in a more desirable area.4.

(I don't give much weight to online reviews especially when most of the reviewers each have a history of only a couple of reviews.)The other guy is the estimator for a 25-year roofing company; I think they're more credible but you're probably right about them being more picky about everything.

In my market, that is a desirable attribute to have it already up and running.