I’m tempted to get in for the short term cash flow, but just so I can barely make a profit on a 7 year turn?

For tenant-facing items, I would prefer to not use my own name.

I barely have time to turn the places over when they do go vacant.

The pandemic will affect the demand due to financial difficulties that every business is facing, but seems it may affect the supply side more (people may postpone to sell with a perception of a very slow market ahead) and this can somehow balance the overall impact of the pandemic to the sold prices.

Many were barely surviving.  

Losing your inspection costs is a risk you will face in any real estate transaction, short sale or not.

The other difficulty you'll face is that upon the death of whoever's house this was they should have a stepped up cost basis which means capital gains are likely to be of little concern to them.  

It's not for the payments per se, it's for the maintance, repairs, not being rented for a couple of months, etc. all of the things we face as investors that cost us money.  

Looking to my wife’s happiness and what’s best for our future family has been a huge guiding factor in my thought process.Yea I have kind moved away from the idea of being an agent or broker, though I may get my license at some point just to have personal access to the MLS.I do really prefer more personal face to face conversations so I like your advice about looking for local meet-ups.

We still find lots of knob and tube because let's face it, most people aren't going to spend the money and time to replace wiring in the walls.