If you go to the burbs, you may find a developer sitting on a small piece of land who can develop a small project but it would likely be an infill project and can be developed cheaply.

I'd rather (and fortunately can afford to) let it sit empty for a bit instead of rushing to fill it with a tenant with so many unknowns right now.

Why sit in traffic for 2+ hours a day (or why deal with overpopulation, smog, etc.)An employee that works in San Jose can buy a small house for $2M or they could head to the midwest or south and buy a gigantic house for $500K.

It hurt when I was watching it sitting at 8, but I just bought more, and it's already back to 10.64 as I type this.

Seriously, on average, he has a closing everyday, commonly two, not to mention all the showings and paperwork but is now just sitting at home.This lack of activity does not appear to have affected prices yet.

As an agent, I work in the Atlanta area with investors like myself and out of state investors, so I think a lot of investors have started to sit on the sideline and absorb what's happening and monitoring what's going to happen.

I don't think I should buy a property and let it sit for months because of COVID 19. 

I was reading another blog and it reminded me that although worming through a real estate deal may not be intimidating to me but is for a lot of buyers.Also, I am not trying to take anything away from a seller agent but I’ve always felt that many times, they list the house and then sit back and wait for a buyer.

If you have more than 20% equity in the homes, you should be able to take out an interest-only line of credit against that additional equity, which basically sits in an account without accruing any interest until it's used.  

As I recall, during/after the 2008 real estate recession, those with capital bought up property in CASH and consistently won those properties against buyers who needed mortgage loans to buy.