. ;-)On a more serious note, in answer to your thesis, This article just came out:"Roughly 43 million American households have opted to rent rather than buy their homes because of convenience, cost or both." https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/311/topics/59...

so you conveniently multiply by 365, for a disease that clearly will peak then diminish... check worldometer  death tolls. 

Again, I am not resident in the US ( am a Canadian) and the initial attraction was the convenience of investing from out of town and using a proxy for all my transactions. 

I am currently in the process of negotiating (as a landlord/developer) either a ground lease or buit to suit type of lease with a large corporate gas/convenience operator and am in need of someone that has experience with either types of leases as well as dealing with gas/convenience store corporates.

Please feel free to call me at your convenience.  

I just told the title company to email me to let me know when everything was closed/recorded, but didn't have to actually do anything except pickup the keys whenever it was convenient for me.)

or would you just accept the lost rent as a cost of doing business in exchange for the convenience of leasing the property on your schedule?

They come where ever is convenient for their clients and I believe they will do double closings although I myself have never done one with them.  

I am a new Keyspire member ( last night :)) and looking for a contact to reach out to....would you be willing to help at your convenience?

Sadly real estate sellers, whether overseas (or in the US or sellers or whatever for that matter) tend to only mention the positives of their products and conveniently forget the negatives.