I normally ask for a security deposit equal to one month's rent, 1.5x is the max allowed by law where I am and I would increase the deposit to the max IF the prospective tenant had a score above 500 and was working to improve their score and the rest of their history looked ok.Given the current environment with COVID -19, they may be very willing to help you out just to get a paying tenant into a vacant rental.Hope that helps,Kelly

I would send the tenant a letter advising them that the deposit would be held until normal operations are able to resume or until you can get someone in there to repair the damage they caused.

But life will get back to normal and we will all be having “do you remember when _____” conversations.

Verify income as you normally would, run their background/credit and talk to their last two landlords. 

During normal times (the virus is not normal times), I would think 5% long term appreciation is not aggressive, but I would choose more conservative of 3% or 3.5% in my projections.

Also, the good wholesalers I know always have a few streams of leads, they'll never rely just on driving, but as they are driving around they can pick up a property here and there during their normal business.

this is not answering the particular question about the race track.In florida we build from the dirt up, because its normally cheaper than a flip and the buyer would much rather new construction than a flip property. 

@James Morrissey During normal times, I think nearly all their meetings are in-person meetings. 

We would normally attempt to show while tenants are living there, but times are obviously different right now.

Is it a normal an agent would ask landlord that?