Nobody has to demonstrate hardship to get payments deferred during COVID-19. 

We were considering a lake house last year and some of the points you mentioned played into our decision not to buy one.Your experience has demonstrated that we made the right decision.Excellent post!

I thought the article did a decent job of demonstrating dissenting data and how the NET effect of everything is a burden on the taxpayer.

An overall D/E ratio or global cash flow that demonstrates margin for downside risk may be in order...right?

This is, almost by definition, characteristic of cultist behavior and demonstrates a lack of critical reasoning skills.There is also the blanket "uneducated" statement that gets tossed around when the "liberal" one fails the acid test.

I realize this is unlikely, but it demonstrates that a blanket "optimal" strategy is hard to identify in the real world.

Love must be demonstrated by action.

Discussing details with a GC, if you are knowledgeable, will demonstrate you are not a fool and take away the "retail premium".If you PM me I can give you a couple names to stay away from.

I am glad that they didn’t do more extensive damage than that, but this whole process has been emotionally draining and made me consider giving up on Airbnb completely as they have demonstrated they don’t really care about their hosts safety.

But there could always be specific circumstances where a shorter (or longer) holding period would be justified.Some things that demonstrate intent are - actual holding period, past history, present business practice, unsolicited offer, extenuating circumstances, correspondence with your professionals.