Apparently, because this was auctioning taxes not paid in the first years prior to the financial crisis, there were more properties on the block than ever before in Franklin County - over 40. 

I had a front row seat to the 2008 crisis working for a construction equipment manufacturer.

Usually tenant has something unfortunate happen financially and needs some 'bridge' support to get through the crisis. 

https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/wall-street-is-not-buying...Wall Street is not exactly the easiest group of institutions to defend, in large part because they most certainly do merit an enormous amount of criticism for many of the financial shenanigans they engaged in that helped contribute to the 2008 Financial Crisis, such as being bailed out by taxpayers only to give out exorbitant bonuses to their executives before needing to be bailed out again when COVID struck.

Asking for the volume to be reduced and explaining why diplomatically - rather than just making the demand - makes it a favor to you rather than a complaint.

In LA you can add ADUs so many investors buy properties with alleys or on a corner lot and build an ADU with 2-3 bedrooms and rent it out for good rent but then I think you are subject to rent control since then your property turns into multi-family and in LA there is rent control on multi-family (It might be harder to get insurance now a days for the ADU because of the current insurance crisis in California). 

Thankfully, I have a network of trusted professionals who can assist in times of crisis.

See if there is a crisis center you can call in your city that can have the police come check them out, many times they will bring them to the hospital and then they will be committed.

Federal Reserve’s response to COVID-19 crisis was to lower interest rates to near 0% in order to support the economy during the pandemic.

It's a location where appreciation has been consistent for the past 60 years (even during the global financial crisis 2008-2010 when many markets crashed by 50%, this market continued going up).