I am looking for tips and advice from seasoned landlords about how they found a good handyman, problems they have with bad ones in the past so I can avoid repeating those mistakes, and how I can be a valuable member of someone's team.So far I have only given out flyers at this month's REIA meeting, which was poorly attended due to COVID 19. 

I've heard a lot of people discussing how this situation with covid 19 creates a lot of opportunity to buy great deals right now or make good long term investments.  I just wanted to see what the BP community thought ...

Will applying for the disaster loan affect my other loan?

You have to sit down and look at your financial situation as well as current and historical facts about economic crisis and how the real estate market was affected and make a game plan based on that. 

I suspect lenders will want to see that.this is not owner occ issues landlords are a for profit business profit or LOSS.. so they will be treated differently I suspect. but end of the day i don't think those holding mortgages want a repeat of mass defaults and will come up with creative workouts for borrowers.. 

By that I mean I considered which would be LEAST likely to close down/layoff in the event of a partial shut down due to some of these "shelter in place" orders we're seeing in California, and the applicants I ultimately picked both worked in industries that I felt would be least likely to be affected.  

Then maybe BRRRR one or two up and keep repeating.

I am optimistic, we have a few tenants who will be affected.

How are we handling this now that COVID 19 is affecting business

The pandemic will definitely affect the Austin real estate market in the immediate term.