Before selling commercial real estate starting about 17 years ago I was in the food business sector for over a decade in all facets.

Owning rentals involves volatility in cash flows, if the investors can’t figure out the best way to deal with COVID-19 while paying all their bills, then they don’t deserve to have rentals. 2 - There are options available to Investors: They can always put it on a credit card, which really already has a payment plan set up for them with their terms... an investor can quite literally just pay the minimum until they get back on their feet, not suggesting anyone just make the minimum on a CC but that is an option, just like it is an option to put food, utilities and anything else on a credit card, investments are no different. 3 - There are loans available to Investors: Applying for temporary or unsecured loans to make ends meet are available and even more so now - and before anyone says you won't qualify - there's only one person to blame for getting yourself overleveraged in some vanity fueled quest to reach x number of doors and yes... a CC is a type of loan when used - so if you have a CC... you can access to borrowed funds with a re-payment system. 4 - Why does an investor have to own their current rentals?

I would also contact your tenants and ask them if they suffered a loss in income; you can point them in the direction of some State and Federal government assistance programs.

I foresee him now being able to pay the rent for another 4-6 months or so.I will be unable to afford this kind of loss as a result.

The state would indeed be causing losses but two VERY different kinds of losses.

@Claire Rosenberg your returns or losses can be massive.

This servicing runoff creates losses for that Mortgage Lender who is servicing the loan.

The flip side of that is for smaller deals this is a great time for master lease options and seller financing and asking seller to escrow three to six months of rents from proceeds to offset rent losses !

Your renter is eligible for unemployment and shouldn't have any loss of income.

Didn’t end up 1031-ing it because of losses we have from this and other properties.