If Zeus Living plans on staying in business, they'll need the relationships to be good with the larger property management companies as that's where they get their depth of inventory, not only in Seattle but their other markets as well.  

Local real estate meetups are a good way to network with seasoned investors who may have inventory to sell.

Will the housing market be flooded with inventory for sale, driving prices down? 

@Jordan Cortese with new construction from the big developers they have learned that to avoid fees up front they just tack mello roos onto the property taxes to pay for things like schools, parks, etc. so the property taxes are often way higher than existing older inventory. 

After a month-and-a-half of no payment, we started inventorying her belongings and pricing them for sale.

In terms of how much money you should save up, if I were you, I would take a look at the local real estate inventory that you are interested in and save a percentage of that. 

In my opinion there will be a surge of people moving down south after all this and the inventory is there to sustain in most areas.  

Home sales are still moving due to low inventory and there is a high demand for tenants to move into rental homes.I feel any long term rental owners that were managing their own properties and thinking of selling soon will now be frustrated with their tenants due to the recent circumstances and will be unloading their properties once this is over.

I think there will be a group for foreclosures that are coming but not in the wave of 2008's when real estate was the catalyst for the recession.For those who bought callously and did not have any reserves in place, they will for sure lose their homes because of lack of rental income and that will increase the foreclosure and short sale inventory.

pid=1714Houston Real Estate Highlights in March:-Single-family home sales rose 8.2 percent year-over-year, with 7,566 units sold, marking the ninth consecutive month of positive sales;-The Days on Market (DOM) figure for single-family homes was unchanged at 65 days;-Total property sales rose 6.9 percent, with 8,965 units sold;-Total dollar volume jumped 11.0 percent to more than $2.6 billion;-The single-family home median price rose 4.1 percent to $249,900, reaching a March high;-The single-family home average price climbed 3.8 percent to a March high of $309,785;Single-family homes months of inventory was at a 3.5-months supply, down from 3.8 months last March but above the national inventory level of 3.1 months;-Townhome/condominium sales declined 0.5 percent, with the average price up 6.0 percent to $224,038 and the median price up 4.6 percent to $183,000;-Lease properties experienced a mixed performance, as single-family home rentals increased 1.2 percent with the average rent up 2.4 percent to $1,788;-Volume of townhome/condominium leases fell 9.7 percent with the average rent up 4.2 percent to $1,604.