Folks simiply have less money and segments of the economy might not recover for awhile:  Travel, entertainment and larger purchases.In soft markets, inevitably we should be able to find some better deals. 

Thank heavens we are not seeing major numbers of infected or seriously ill people, but there seems to be a lot of palpable fear among a large segment of the populace.

Take a given City, no matter whether its high prices like San Francisco or lower price points like Cleveland, what is the most/least efficient segment of the market in terms of pricing?

And the most important thing is to review what developments and speculation they were previously involved with, make sure the characteristics are matching or similar to what your looking to do because if they specialized in say townhome development it dosn't mean they will be able to perform in Luxury SFH segment. 

We may see some forclosures in the luxury segment, but they will not surface untile 2021 or 2022.

I am most concerned for the luxury segement, over 500k, many make too much money to qualify for stimulus or get unemployment (biz owners) - so we may see some forclosures in that segment 2021 and 2022.

In my market segment, low C-class SFR in western PA, I've never had a need to buy a property with a tenant in place and raise the existing rent immediately.

Certainly, we can all agree that every segment of society has a few bad actors.However, in your post, you set out haranguing other landlords (that posted above, as you state) for some perceived wide-ranging ill that there does not appear to be any evidence for, at least on this thread.To baselessly condemn the entire profession without that merit, to me, does indeed reinforce a false narrative.If I were to muse publicly, as you did, that since a few individuals belonging to an industry (or ethnicity) did wrong, paint them all with a broad unilateral brush and declare “and people wonder why (that group) have a bad name”, I’ll bet you’d use a harsher term than “false narrative” to describe that sentiment.Landlords have a very unfair negative public image because of a very small percentage of individuals in the industry, and you are not helping.

Why would anyone put 30% miss housing payment when they were talking about only apartment renters, a very small segment of housing?

Saving $, if putting your $ in the bank = losing $, and real estate investing tends to yield relatively well during recession, especially segment & target specific area/types of real estate imo.I think if you find “good deal” still should stick to your plan, and continue investing in real estate!