During this time we also paid cash for one of the properties (which we didn't want to do) because, financing options through banks had collapsed due to DTI. 

I don't think the real estate market is going to collapse, but I do expect it to soften over the next 12-24 months.

All except 1 had foundation issues (foundation collapsing inwards).

Now, I was in good health and had scheduled my preventative surgery that was set to happen just 2 days before of my collapse. 

Did a sewer inspection and found it totally collapsed, so got another $4K off the price.

But Trump won't, and by the time the individual governors do, it will be too late.We're going to have our hospital system collapsing in about 3-4 weeks, with rationing of ventilators according to patient age and risk factors. 

The quickest way to collapse a business is to depend on it to put food on your table; the first 1-5 years of any business is reinvesting profits for growth such that it has its own legs.2.

If we have an economic or housing collapse, then I’m prepared to lower my rent to keep tenants in place.

In 1991 they dropped about $1800, and the housing collapse they dropped a lot. 

During the housing collapse, I got into REI, and in short order as people thought I was bonkers and couldn't figure what I was doing, swearing of impending financial doom, I simply said "I choose to not participate in a down economy", and it really was that simple, I made a choice.