See if you predicted correctly:1- The stock market and housing market recovered after the 2007-2008 recession in just 5 years and appreciated much quicker after that.2- The short-term rental market and other sectors recovered from the 2020 Covid shutdown recession quickly and went into a boom mode3- Instead doing a surgical-strike operation in Ukraine , the Russians got them into a Vietnam-style quagmire.

(it can really spook them) I would keep shut off until you get rid of the trouble ones.

I was looking in Cleveland but their point of sale inspections spooked me and I didn't want to have to deal with that. 

Emerging markets like Brazil and China have been spooked.  

Will bad news itself spook new business??

Its seems like everytime I start asking a seller for real information,  Schedule E, Insurance info, Lease information, they start to get spooked.    

I am also very informed about world events.My fiance' and her daughter are in Donetsk, Ukraine, the area where a horrible war has been raging on since early 2014.

I have a rental now- which is under my personal name as I bought it and lived in it for a while, then a different living situation came up for me, (no cost) so I put the other home on the market for a short time however it didn't sell and I got spooked then a co-worker needed a rent so she took it and pays for that home. 

If you are purchasing a residential property (1-4 units) or even a small commercial multi-unit (say up to 5-8 or 10 units), I would advise you use the Agreement of Purchase and Sale from the BC Real Estate Association (with your own schedule if additional terms are required) and not bother with an LoI as your Vendor is more apt to be less sophisticated and become spooked by the formality of an LoI and a deal specific contract. 

Most of these units that I have seen in my years investing in the Ukraine , Wicker Park and East Village areas have been converted to duplexes, meaning top and bottom units combined to add more space and rents are tripled to cover the cost of upgrades.