The buyers personally thanked me which meant the world to me and after a few days of dealing with internal frustration with my clients, I got over it.  

@Brian Briscoe thank you this was very helpful it truthy meant a lot to me.

I have tried to invest in stocks and ETFs that I think will be as recession-proof as possible, and have diversified into other markets & across many sectors to account for the election, more outbreak, economy tanking, new business models, etc etc etc.

This post is not meant to portend “doom and gloom” but rather to point out in these uncertain times there is at least one thing we can be pretty certain about and thus plan for.

@Moises R Cosme you have some excellent points and those are why I usually avoid getting involved with residential condos myself.However @Carrie Benoit was asking about retail condos so they are meant to be leased to small businesses and the comparison to SFs or MFs isn't really a good one.Basically, these are the small-medium size store fronts you often see at the ground level of busy foot-traffic areas.At this point (in the pandemic) it's much more about whether you think retail is a good risk or not, since we don't really know what foot traffic is going to be like, whether we'll have another lock down, etc.I don't have any direct experience with retail condos though I have run across them a few times in my travels.

I'd also be careful assuming the market is going to cool down - depends on who wins the elections AND what the government will do in terms of pumping money into the economy (if that's the case, we could see inflation and that will not bring the prices down... 

I’m convinced the former home owner is having elective brain surgery just to stay in the house a little longer but that is another story for another day :-).

Which also meant he may not be getting much income until the rehab is done. 

The QCD was meant to add a joint owner, the original sole owner is now a joint owner.  

In fact, it could be materially higher or lower depending on expensing and depreciation elections in year 1.