In today’s COVID environment I’m really looking to minimize risk and I would much rather have an empty house not generating income than an occupied house costing me money to get it back.  

In a matter of fact, the only thing that you should fear more then corporations is their involvement with the goverment.Now, I'm not against business and competition, but what I am against is an unregulated environment where every company can do no wrong.Singapore was mention in another thread as a model for capitalism.

What that customer is buying, first and foremost, is a clean, safe and healthy living environment.

In environments like that, new construction is just not viable.

You've made a big investment in training, and I would be asking that investment to work hard, even if the job environment is difficult.I'm not surprised at all that the 2% "rule" doesn't work in Holland.

I think you might find you won't need to mess around with finding a tenant for flipping in this current lack of inventory environment.

I'm not a meth expert, so I don't know if the chemicals used are technically considered "environment contaminants," but that might require a "yes" answer.Most disclosures will ask something along the lines of, "Do you know of any other adverse conditions of the property that haven't been addressed in the rest of this document?"

We pride ourselves on having a decent family environment.

The environment is also very beneficial if you take advantage of it.

In a lower return environment (like now), JV's start to look less expensive.JV's are what really can scale you up since you don't need to put your own cash in.