North jersey is a tough place to start and make numbers work especially if you're doing an FHA loan having less downpayment.

I think retail will die out, and office space's decline will be expedited as a result of COVID and employers realizing that they can still have a productive workforce with remote workers.

Buy and rent to healthcare workers?

Family can be tough to work with. 

It will be tough to break even with 6 weeks of personal usage & you may have some tax implications to consider. 

Times are tough but my business has not seen the slowdown that many have (yet).

This little town is on the coast and a lot of my clients are either snow birds in the winter time or families out of Atlanta in the summer.There are a lot of things to be careful of and below are a few1) Most all of your tenants will be lower income.2) You have to be tough as nails, if they cant pay they have to leave and i suspect you will be left with a problem on your hands.

@James Smith It's a bit tough to answer that question, can you provide more details?

However, the CARES Act absolutely pulled the rug out from under landlords and overrides decades of landlord-tenant legislation and case law at the state level, as well as hundreds of years of basic contract law, by banning evictions for non-payment of rent for 120 days.Under this Federal Law, a tenant who stopped paying their rent in March would have no repercussions whatsoever until July 28th, at which time the landlord can issue a 30-day notice, wait the required 30 days, and then get in line to wait for a court date with an overwhelmed local court system in hopes of regaining possession of their rental unit.Even the best prepared landlord would have a very tough time weathering six months with no rent and no recourse.

Especially if you're not doing it full time with access to the great deals first, the know-how to realize when you see a good deal, the ability to move very quickly and the crews to pull it off, it's going to be tough to get a home-run.