While learning, I would be pinching pennies and trying to figure out how to save up enough for a downpayment in your market.

@Anthony Pisciotta and as has been mentioned, being able to handle your PITI is one thing, but you will likely have repairs and/or capex that come up that you are putting yourself in a worse position by doing rent reductions.Thankfully, there do seem to be various charities and government subsidies currently available or coming soon to help those that are in a pinch. 

This should come as a blessing to penny pinching landlords, there's ALOT of factory workers out of work now, so cheap labor is plentiful.

But I suspect some out there will be getting pinched very soon.

That's not a bad idea if you can get a landlord on board (and at this point, there are a lot of STR people who are feeling the pinch and are pretty panicked about what the future might hold for them).

Money and stress and pinching pennies consumes their whole schedule, so they have no time to enjoy the rich things in life that aren't money.

They usually will take care of their good clients that find themselves in a pinch.. you wont get long term or super great rates but it will take out HML.this is exactly what happened to me and my company in the GFC i had 400 or so BRRRR HML s out as the lender and refi's froze.it was a nightmare cost me my company most of my net worth at the time and I ended up owing 200 plus homes that I had to liquidate at the bottom.. 

In a pinch the police will know.3) you can be human—reach out to the lady downstairs and ask her how she is doing?

Here in Chicago that is just a pinch more than most 3 units would go for in A neighborhoods.

They are going to be put in a pinch in a few months and the housing bubble will burst.