Economic growth, new jobs, schools popping up that you know of? 

if this crisis were to stop within one month or two, I really wonder how long  its consquences will  prevail ?

I choose to invest in larger buildings simply because I know it is economically more efficient to hire a manager for 75+ units vs a fourplex.

If I were in your shoes, Sub2 would be my preferred acquisition strategy, over and above actually assuming the debt.Even if there were language in the note that would preclude a subject-to purchase, I'd still reach out to the lender and see what could be arranged, particularly in light of the current COVID-19 Crisis.

if he was doing sfh-type stuff but is now shifting into multi space, i'd question how those skills transfer over into that space. i'd want to have somebody who survived prior economic downturns vs somebody who was successful flipping in a hot market. i'd still give him a listen, tho. maybe he is one of the few that will pull thru.

During economic downturns, it's been pretty common in the last few decades for investors to buy up old high-quality brick homes in areas near the urban core and convert them to duplexes or rooming houses, and then Section 8 them out.

But I'm thinking about negotiating with the realtor with a steep discount in order to generate a positive cash-on-cash return (20% discount price), given the current economic situation. 

 We are looking at putting together  a simple, repeatable, improvable, standardized, simplified, optimized, economized multifamily project designed to be modular.  

So the servicers are getting put into a liquidity crisis, and instead of offering to help, Calabria is saying he will just move servicing away from those struggling to those with more resources.All that being said, I stand by my earlier point.  

There's no play book on this...we're all in this alone when it comes to the economic side of this shutdown.