Community appreciates rooting out bad practicers.

This will likely lead to some marginal stores shuttering for good, but high performers will stay open.In my opinion this is being magnified by COVID19, but that is not the root cause. 

They know that when people are hurting, if you give them a lot of money, they will vote their way.It certainly looks like buying votes to me.I believe you touched on the root of this issue, and it's a sh#* terrifying one.

The most difficult aspect of this was digging and leveling out the space...oh and removing quite a few roots.

I’m rooting for you in your next venture.

Fast forward to now; my wife is now a landlord owning a 1M plus dollars of rental properties, and she remembers her roots.

I am rooting for you.I have heard that VA, FHA and Fannie are still lending, but are slowed down by the servicing companies who need to buy the paper.   

Has made several great suggestions that get to the root causes of why the function is broken.

Remember, Madoff undoing wasn't the market crash, it merely exposed his house of cards.I hope that's not the case here as I am truly rooting for the democratization of capital in CRE.

Many foundation problems have water as a root cause - be that infiltration in a crawl space, drainage around the site, cracked sewer line or water line.