Maybe that's not rational but it scares me.My husband has business loans in his name but could possibly take on another property loan.

So the take away as a new investor is in any path you need to do your homework and realize that in every path you can make a bad investment.For me, when I do my own research, analysis, and due diligence and decide I want to enter a market because I feel that it meets a host of investment criteria I have (such as price to rent rations, tax rates, diversity of economy, population migration to, etc) as well as where I feel that market sits in it's real estate cycle I then look at what is the best way for me to further learn and enter the market at the lowest risk that meet my return hurdles as I prepare for a larger presence / operations.  

What I can seem to rationalize is why I would start investing in real estate now, betting on the inflation/hyperinflation happening when we also are apparently looking at a continuing deflation of the housing market.Add to that my concerns that there will be an unsecured debt crash, which will deflate most other hard goods (er, cars, boats, TVs, etc.) and the question becomes when is the right time to invest?

Your title is a little misleading Karen, when the article states that the state will write the guidelines but the HOSPITALS will decide.The plan, which would guide Florida hospitals on how to ration scarce medical care during a severe flu outbreak, also calls for doctors to remove patients with poor prognoses from ventilators to treat those who have better chances of surviving.

For instance, is it your goal to achieve the same "rules of thumb" -ie, $100/door, Debt service coverage ration, cash on cash returns, ROI, gross rent multiplier, using Balloons/Arms?

Everybody seems to agree that there is serious pain ahead in the commercial real estate market.You are being too rational.

You are beginning to sound emotional, and are rationalizing a bad deal into a good one. 

I don't think it's rational to expect your investments to perform as they always have during a time like this while folks are evicted onto the streets.

Sellers are not always (rarely in my world) bottom-line, rational thinkers like yourselves Keep that in mind when they call you

Prices for debt money will necessarily rise with only rational private entities buying mortgages.I'll post some more links in a few Stan.