An insurance company placement service has negotiated a displaced tenant's stay in one of my homes and I have accepted the lease terms via email.

If you want to keep that relationship friendly, you need to have clearly defined boundaries.

With Conventional, you can get a different value via a new appraisal 2. 

Funny how it's so apparent to most people that when parents don't set boundaries or discipline their children, they are setting them up to become unruly, lack core values, and have a lot of problems later on. 

My initial plan was to begin building a rental portfolio via buy and hold and BRRRR strategy; however, given our current situation with COVID 19 and probable downturn in the economy (no matter how slight or severe people may think it will be) I'm strongly considering pivoting my focus to purchasing properties via "Subject To" and/or seller financing.

It's those maniacs that buy homes cash via quit claim deed off of craigslist that really get screwed.Make sure your property manager is a licensed real estate brokerage.Google Clayton Morris scam and/or Morris Invest scam for a cautionary tale of what not to do when buying turnkey real estateUnderstand you can not eliminate all risk, only mitigate it.

(It is only possible via complicated fiscal year accounting which I do not recommend.)- Sch C v Sch D for flips is case by case and requires an in-depth discussion.

I have seen a couple of properties come available via sheriff sale/county sale. 

There are number of ways that you can open up slots to continue to buy rentals via Fannie Mae financing.

What you have to understand is people have lives and they'll need to move: for school boundaries reason, to downside, to go to new colleges, there will be newly formed households, also with people in close quarters they'll observe that maybe their accommodations are not good enough, too big or too small.