Disclaimer: While I’m an attorney licensed to practice in PA, I’m not your attorney.

Note that as a practical matter, many of the courts are shutting down virtually all court activities.

Almost seems more practical to let young people back to work and instead quarantine high-risk candidates.

In areas with low risk, maybe lots of photos then the final best applicants take in person first choice, if declines lease, then go onto second choice, etc. one at a time and use safe practices.

I'm curious how this works as a business model; when someone says they take OPM, how does that look in practice?

Yes, but only if markets don't tank simultaneously, and you will have to resign your self to limited returns on that cash.Remember that when doing a pro-forma for investing, banks conservatively calculate 30% vacancy.

Practice.

For the next month or two or whatever time we as a society need to transition to a new normal, to overcome this initial fear, I'm in favor of keeping everyone in place.Regardless of how borrowers have acted in the past, they are still human beings and we all need to stick together, practice social distancing to "flatten the curve" until things settle down.

“The sudden economic stop caused by COVID-19 containment measures will lead to a global recession this year,” S&P said in a new reportA cash flow slump and much tighter financing conditions as well as the simultaneous oil price shock will hurt creditworthiness it added.

Create new relationships and continue to build on the existing ones.Now that you're transitioning to sales, I recommend calling warm/hot leads daily - FSBO, Expired, and buyer leads.Fsbos can be found on ZillowExpired on RedX and other platformsBuyer leads can be found at: open houses; Zillow/Realtor,Trulia; Running targeted FB ads; OR partnering with a trusted lender to supply in-house leads or sponsor some of your online ad spend.Book suggestionsI'd recommend:EVERY BP book -https://www.biggerpockets.com/storeMillionaire Real Estate investor AND Millionaire Real Estate Agent by Gary Keller - very practical books.