(Per Mortgage Bankers Association).Of course, telling people there is no crisis doesn't make for good click bait.

Sorry guys, I don’t mean to sound doom and gloom but it’s better to prepare for the worst than to be caught in a financial crisis. 

What effect would a subprime car loan crisis have on this investment?

Their answers to the "housing crisis" are jokes.

There is actually a bit of a rental property crisis there due to so many of the historical rentals going to exclusive AirBnB.

I'm looking forward to seeing how it is affected by this COVID-19 crisis. 

I.E, ceiling height for the basement, windows for emergency exits, parking etc.Monitor posts when individuals ask for recommendations provide valueJoin FB REI groups in your state, county, city whichever is available -> ask for wholesaler recommendationsKeep an eye on the BP marketplace see who is wholesaling in your area, if there aren't any, contact the ones who post most consistently ask if they know someone who knows someone in your area.Check out your county's/city's cash-buyers list, -> build a relationship -> ask for wholesaler recommendations (and possibly money)Contact active RE Agents/Property Managers in your area -> build a relationship -> ask for recommendationsThere are YouTube channels about REI DM/post comments -> ask for recommendationsCreate FB ads " I buy ugly homes in XXX area"Get comfortable with the idea you may have to invest out of your area/state.Hound the auction webpages to the individual cities/counties your interested in (not the well known auction sites)Read publications about legacy cities with high vacancy/home abandoned rates due to industrial HQ moves or what I call industrial to IT changes or the 2008 Housing Crisis ( Baltimore, MD. 

“New data confirms what common sense probably already led you to suspect: Fewer people want to live in buildings with hundreds of other units—and which charge premiums for shared amenities like pools and gyms—during a public health crisis.

I would choose working class areas because starting out you would not want negative cash flow.If you are hoping for a purchase cost of less than $70K in San Diego, then you options are limited.One option is raw land that is not zoned for development and hope that the housing crisis results in the land later get zoned for development. 

Tenants ALWAYS assume you have someone sitting around waiting to fix whatever their crisis of the day is.