One just has to adapt to the changing environment and change their strategies.

Corporations are slow, slow to move, slow to adapt, slow to advent, giant lumbering beasts who's advantage in a standard market becomes their Achilles heal in rapid adaptive markets.

They are much easier to work with and much more flexible and can adapt to your needs.I would try to focus on lenders who are on the smaller size and who are looking to growGino

@Brian Loibl glad you came around so readily on the knowledgable advice, truth be told that is a big catalyst between success and failure, the ability to learn, adapt and grow. 

Learned to adapt to what the market offers (was looking for a 5 bed house) and not having a mortgage payment anymore helps when pandemics hit.

If you want to succeed, you must learn and adapt from your mistakes and experiences as you go along. 

He has no obligation to adapt to your change in circumstances and every obligation not to disrupt his daughters life/time with him. 

I've had this idea for a while about multi-tenant retail centers converting to last-mile delivery centers to adapt to the e-commerce world, and the current situation could open the door for those opportunities for creative active investors and fix-and-flip buyers who want to get some CRE exposure.

We've all had these challenges, and the key is to adapt so as to avoid it happening again in the future. 

I think the reason why "invest close when you start" is the rule of thumb is because it is easier for you to adapt to the unexpected, especially as you are learning.