To start investing through an app would you recommend robinhood or firsttrade?

If I go to a competing company and oil prices fall in the next 6 months there is a high probability I would be in the first round of layoffs without seniority at a new company.

Quite the contrary:  Cancellation policies are very clear cut and in fact are legally binding.While I am emphathetic to the guests, I am not Robin Hood:  I cannot arbitrarily decide to take money from my clients and distribute it to guests out of charity.

-if prices do not rebound we will need a plan beyond that and it will not be pretty-this can and will hit the rental market in a variety of ways and here are a few potential issues i see.1. higher end rentals could see prices drop or vacancies increase as this type of downturn could hit middle to upper income families that have not budgeted or who see their jobs or incomes decrease as companies tighten their belts and cut salaries or even lay off more folks.2. low income rentals would see more evictions and more late rent payments and potentially small decreases in price - while many of the low income families in town do not work for the oil and gas industry they do often work in service industries that are frequented by oil and gas folks or depend on programs that are subsidized by oil and gas money in our state budget. 3. property prices and values - prices are being driven up on investment properties mostly by out of state investors as there are very few areas where you can get a "decent" property for under 100k and we are still one of them. 

We want to close as soon as possible as the industry we work in has been deeply impacted by the corona virus and the market, which could mean possible layoffs limiting our options or the refinance itself.Kind regards.

One of them a professional tenant who we have been trying to get out for almost a year.As the economy begins to be affected by this I anticipate some tenants to have reduced hours/layoffs and will struggle to pay the rents.

Especially when looking at home prices even 5-10 years ago - these sellers have hundreds of thousands of dollars in equity.I can't predict what will happen but - at least in our market - i'd like to see how bad Q1 earnings will be and see if that leads to layoffs, etc...

@Ryan@Ryan McKimm I could see the layoffs impacting us in a month or two.  

I found a cool way to build funds right now is cash advance a few thousand, put it into Robinhood Gold, then they match funds @ 5% annualized, no tricks!

The neighborhood is composed majority of health and tech professionals so I don’t think the current state of the economy would force lay offs in these two sectors, although obviously I could be wrong.