They are more educated, better with their money and don't run into financial crisis often.

Good article of Someone taking advantage of a city's crisis and of investors' desire to invest.

This is one thing that got people in trouble during the last financial crisis.

What did you mean by having great timing by selling in February before the crisis?

I would add that the end is not in sight now but history is on our side in that every crisis has ended and every pandemic has ended.

http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-je...“In North America, California is now setting the pace, and we're very serious about it,” Brown told a crowd of hundreds at a climate change conference in Los Angele...

Heck yeah you ought to take an attorney's advice into consideration when drafting a rental agreement and I'd HIGHLY recommend getting some referrals on that as well, you want one who's well versed LOCALLY in what flies and what doesn't, which here as was explained to myself and at least one other BP member attended, plus many more (and a rather "famous" BP member at that who I recognized from her profile pic, but she certainly seems to know what she's doing with rentals and was at the same event, a "landlord bootcamp" where the local attorney who I've been told is THE BEST landlord atty to call in a crisis taught the ins and outs of this stuff) but part of what he explained was how in Milwaukee Cty the judiciary of this county of nearly 1M residents which ranges from very poor areas to very wealthy areas has mostly very liberal, left leaning judges who generally ALWAYS find any reason they can to take the tenant's side and often give some awful tenants "one more chance" much to the landlord's chagrin.

Do you expect appreciation from the house or perhaps depreciation (since a financial crisis is not out of the question in my mind)?

I think you were right to draw a line in the sand that you're not her puppets she gets to watch dance, but....there's a way to do that diplomatically.  

By then, I'd moved to Mexico (true mid-life crisis lol).