That was one of my biggest reasons for making this move.

And thirdly, to save some money.It is very, very difficult to find a better example than this crisis to illustrate what I've always said is the biggest risk advantage of DIY investing: you are the contractor of last resort. 

Given everything that is going on in the world today, it is pretty clear to me that we are headed for a global recession/depression due to the economic impact that will be felt worldwide from the Coronavirus.Hopefully I am wrong, but the signs are pointing this way...So to be as prepared as possible going into these time, through and coming out the other side, as this really being the first recession I have gone through that will impact me significantly (as the 2008/9 one I was young enough and going through post secondary education that the impact to me was minimal), I wanted to lean on the experience of those that have been through one of more recessions.Here are some of the questions that keep coming to mind:Previous experience:- how did you protect your downside and mitigate risk in your portfolio and personal finances when you realized where the economy was headed?

The biggest challenge I see is that the lot is located near a Mobile park.

What's your biggest challenge at the moment?

The biggest trigger perhaps the lending and we don't know exactly what will happen with that. 

This site pumps RE as an investment, but it generally lacks showing the downside of such ventures. 

The downside is that my wife is one of the booth renters!

“The biggest part of employer expense is rent.

Maybe, who knows but I see more upside over the next 2 years than downside.