However, for the past 3 years, we have been fully booked by directly listing with the top temporary housing agency in North America, ALE Solutions, as well as with local temporary housing agencies.   

Hey Brandon,My wife and I are investors and we run a small REIA on the Eastern Shore.

Others on here may tell you eastern shore for rural or beach investing, MoCo for appreciation, or out in Hagerstown. 

My resident was able to find temporary housing through a connection at The Red Cross.

Being better off means that if you suffer a large unexpected expense, serious illness, temporary loss of job, major home repair, you can charge it to a credit card and siphon money from your investments over the next year to pay down the credit card gradually instead of being left in a financial desert where you know you will never be able to pay more than the monthly minimum on those cards for the next 20 years, while the principal grows and grows until you'r eventually forced to file bankruptcy.Being better off means, if a catastrophic potentially life-ruining event occurs, you can sell one property or take a large piece of your investment money, handle the otherwise catastrophic potentially life-ruining event, and still have more net worth than 93% of all Americans.All of that reduces latent stress on the brain. 

Most people would be using a temporary change of address to recieve mail anyway. 

They're also avoiding short term rental fees, temporary storage fees.Creative finance: they have too much equity for a subject-to deal; but I'm wondering if I could do a wraparound mortgage of 300k at 4.51% (payment would be around $1785/mo; market rent is around $2300/mo) and maybe offer like $40k cash?

We use apartments.com and because I'm a realtor I also often have clients or other agents asking me for temporary housing for their clients.

I'd be looking at classic STR markets that have been hammered due to temporary regulations put in place to curb the virus.

Since some of the main areas for STRs are vacation markets like the Smokies or Gulf Shores, I imagine it is a pretty low percentage of owners who actually live local.