I dont know if this is a dead post.

My realtor actually manages properties as well, but there have been a couple of rough patches as the rehab process on a couple of units took too long given the scope of the project and put him trying to find tenants in dead of winter, which took 1.5-2 months to fill the two units effective March 1.

Yes, the ones that have bad furniture, bad pictures, and don't communicate will sit vacant, because they aren't putting in the effort, and also they may not be in a solid location for the MTR space.As for your questions, we are currently in a weird time, between being the dead of winter, right around the holidays, and in a recession (or at least in the loom of a recession) it is too early to tell what will happen to these spaces.

Tenant finds 2 or 3 dead ones, or slow moving ones that have been poisoned.Its a 2 unit building,  and the other tenant has started to see the Germans show up. 

Cash in savings would be dead weight because its not actively paid against 1 of the loans. 

So in great crisis what do you want, a bunch of "pocket art" of mini-paintings of dead presidents, or something people NEED?

They were dead wrong this time.

At that point you almost certainly should sell and 1031 (assuming the 1031 survives 13 more years) into a nice multifamily or several SFHs to compound the money since sitting equity is essentially dead equity without being used.

Anybody know how I could access dead leads to practice my negotiation skills?

Opportunity is NOT dead and gone, it's just different.