It also appears that Zillow could very soon employ agents to list/show properties and almost act as an unbiased third party, ensuring the interests and transparency of both sides and thereby eliminating buyer's agents.  

Neither the buyer or seller are the employers of the appraiser, nor do they own the report or the contents or the pictures that were taken.Merely sounds like people getting upset and enraged just to be upset and enraged, which seems all too common these days.

My goals are to become successful at doing Wholesale deals in the short term, but my long term is to employ buy/fix/flip and buy/fix/hold strategies in order to achieve enough passive income to retire from my current job. 

The Hypersupply phase can last anything from 2-4 years before a recession hits.With the onset of this disrupter - the response to the Corona virus -the Fed has pre-empted the actions normally taken during the Recession to try to stimulate the economy but the drivers for this recession are not economically based and so this again skews the normal cycles.The best lens to to try to assess risk is to stay focused on the dynamics of the normal market - prices for multi-family properties are driven by the demand from investors - the competition for the properties is driven by both the desire for the business ( availability of investors) and the cashflow the property can produce in the future - the cashflow is determined by the space market - ie the market for rental space- the rental space market is driven by the employment market largely.

I have 4 tenants unemployed due to COVID-19 and one other unemployed due to a large workplace fire; however, all but one are likely to be eligible for the generous federal unemployment benefits under the cares act.

Reach out to all your tenants and ask them what their employment situation is and if it's being affected by COVID-19 at all.

THEY SAID BUYING PROPERTY MUST BE WITHIN 60 MILES OF WORK PLACE.  

Call their employer and verify their current status before you commit to anything Best of luck!

You got a completed application, copied DL, got paystubs, verified employment, spoke with past LL's, did a BG check, credit check, social media verification all in a few hours?

The bank was confused because I was also the major shareholder so they considered me as self-employed; which I wasn't I reported to a Board.