Plenty of unknowns with COVID and what lingering impact it’s going to leave on the economy and RE. Expectations are to see massive job losses, business closures, layoffs etc. Are you all prepared for this? What are y...

It's pretty surprising.Go ahead... 

If institutions and lenders decide to tighten I want to already be ahead of the game and ready to go shopping if and when everything goes on sale.

I'm trying to get some lead-measures to watch that can tell us where the market is going in SLC.Aside from manually clicking through KSL and other sites, watching rental ads, homes for sale, etc., does anyone have a method for taking scans on the rental and purchase markets?

Not only what keywords you need to target but also how much better your click through rate is.

Starting to consider sending it ahead of issues to find out NOW if there will be an issue, but I'm still thinking it may be a bad idea to send first and put the idea in their mind.

You have to look at the rent and expenses ahead of making your purchase, and if the numbers don't work, you don't buy that property.

They are indeed fortunate to have you as their landlord.I am a tenant, in Colorado, who *will* be able to, and will, pay my rent for April.I can assure you, based on the constant, ever more hopeless, dismal, conversations circulating around the neighborhood by tenants from every nearby rental property, tenants would appreciate knowing where they stand ,rather than, perhaps, even feeling they have no choice but to move themselves out, ahead of perceived legal action by  their landlord.These are reliable tenants, with *years* of paying their rent on time, quiet, respectful tenants, who, for the most part, have landlords that are newer owners, less than a year, of the property they have been renting for 8 or more years.

Plus you may end up further ahead at your age maxing out a Roth IRA the next 4 years while the stock market gets cheaper and real estate is overpriced.

If the market will support that large of an increase, go ahead but I would think many would move with that large of an increase.