Things will probably not go as expected, and you will have to adapt.

Sometimes we have to switch gears, do things differently, but if we adapt and rise above the situation we all come out a little better for it!

As a Broker for over 25 years, Realestate will continually change, most of the big box franchises have not, they will or they will go away just like all business that fails to adapt to change.   

So I would say take a look at the housing stock mix of your home town and then adapt accordingly.   

If you are already providing internet, you can by-pass the lack of a landline by getting a VOIP/SIP line & then use any touch tone (not rotary) phone with an ATA (analog telephone adapter).  

Conversion of office building to residential is a way of adapting and reusing the unused or vacant office building.

Requests for issues other than these are evaluated on a case-by-case basis, but most are declined as a nonessential service in compliance with the Executive Orders.We are allowed to work on vacant homes to get them RentReady, although these projects are taking longer than normal due to long COVID-required lines at suppliers and workers on sick leave.Property ShowingsWe are not allowed to show occupied rental homes per the executive orders.Vacant homes are being shown as we’ve adapted and moved to secured self-showings.Our overall application numbers are up significantly compared to last year.

Now if anyone decides they feel up to writing the REI Encyclopedia library, not to mention they would actually have to possess such commanding knowledge to write such direction guides in each, but by the time they get done writing it all the information would be outdated because REI is like a river not a pond, it's always moving, adjusting, evolving, adapting.

But to answer your overall question, the real way to take advantage of this recession is in "adaptive re-use".

I do infill development, ground up and adaptive reuse.