I have no buffer, they live on the same property and until I discover a better way of seeing red flags earlier i may bow out.

People are scared, and don't have answers, and that compounds an already tense situation.

If you compound that with falling everything (prices, employment, stock market) it can get ugly fast. 

Yes, the pandemic has compounded your problem, but the fact is, even if the pandemic had not happened, you still would have had a very hard time evicting in NYS, even for straightforward non-payment of rent.

My short-term goals are strict budgeting and have $40,000 by the end of 2020 for Real Estate (I do also have stocks, REITS and growing a passive income using dividend growth and compounding).

But I’ll keep working, so that means that cash flow will just compound for the next 10-15 years.

There are of course other alternatives.The tax advantages along with compounding interest are huge.

Its a big topic that wont be wrapped up in a bow unfortunately.

Get your liquidity up and you can compound your purchasing power.

So, if you can put away $25k a year, for say, 10 years at ~10% ROI, you now have 500k (compounding/snowball) with which you can "take" 50k a year of, every year, forever, for example.