You mentioned being prepared to go higher anyway so there really is no harm in making a second offer.

There is dizzyingly little consensus on the matter of our rent-stabilized housing stock — nearly a million apartments, and 28 percent of our housing — and even the basics have been contentious: the condition of these apartments, the money required to make them habitable (even nice), or how many of them are actually empty in the first place.

It's not as glitzy and it's a lot slower, but the success is almost guaranteed, and the habit of living below your means is an incredibly valuable skill to develop.

I already had all the team in place from other projects (architecture, civil, structural, soils, geology, survey, historical) ... we've been at it for 9 months and we haven't even submitted final construction docs.That's one anecdotal example, but the pattern is clear - whether it's CEQA or Historical or riparian habitat or community plan or setbacks or parking or mixed use bonus that hits the FAR ceiling or phantom floors or utility undergrounding, there's just a lot to understand if you're trying to build anything more than a duplex on a single property within City limits.I only have development experience in SD City limits ... curious if anyone has experience doing this in surrounding jurisdictions (La Mesa?  

We don’t know any PMCs to recommend in the area mentioned, but since selecting the wrong PMC is usually more harmful than selecting a bad tenant, you might want to read our series about “How to Screen a PMC Better than a Tenant”:https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/3094/91877-how-to-screen-a-pmc-better-than-a-tenant-part-1-services-and-processesWe recommend you get management contracts from several PMCs and compare the services they cover and, more importantly, what they each DO NOT cover.

There are thousands of posts online about this issuIe including non-smoking tenants who have sued landlords over harming the health of their children for exposing them to secondhand smoke and pot - legal or not - that is known to negatively impact children. 

The reality is this will all depend on how quickly we can get everyone back out and spending money again,  If things open up and old habits do not return things will be tough for some time. 

So mold can cause harm to anyone?

We don’t know any PMCs to recommend in the area mentioned, but since selecting the wrong PMC is usually more harmful than selecting a bad tenant, you might want to read our series about “How to Screen a PMC Better than a Tenant”:https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/3094/91877-how-to-screen-a-pmc-better-than-a-tenant-part-1-services-and-processesWe recommend you get management contracts from several PMCs and compare the services they cover and, more importantly, what they each DO NOT cover.

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