One topic that I keep re-visiting is the long term impact of telecommuting on the value of real estate in non-traditional areas.

I also don’t want to put money into the stock market, which I feel is still headed down, knowing I need cash to make it through the next few months, and want cash to continue growing my RE portfolio once Corona virus is behind us.Good luck to you and the rest of BPThink I'll move one of traditional IRAs to a Roth. 

Clearly you had some good foresight a year ago.In general, I agree with your sentiment that things will get worse, but I do disagree on general timelines.First, I cannot tell if you mean recession from a traditional standpoint (2 consecutive quarters of GDP decline), the current National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) definition (a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales) or a general "emotional" descriptor. 

Finding other than traditional financing

Has anyone been using virtual tours to view properties and what platform might have the best results? 

Hi, Still learning the ropes and digesting but I am looking for confirmation to help drive this through my head...In the below article, David talks about financing a BRRRR is optimal without the traditional loan. https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/brrrr-strategy-real-estate-investingBeing a newbie investor with only $10-20k in the tri-state area, I would need to either go to a PML/ HML or come up with creative financing (i.e. raise the money of individuals on my own by convincing people on my numbers)?

If you do intend to use traditional debt bank/Fanny,Freddie it will be nearly impossible to bring the “equity stack” $500K in form of other or subordinate debt even if it is from private Investors.

She had refinanced during this time, and her lender wasn't allowing her to rent to traditional tenants.

This property seems to be more of a traditional BRRRR in the sense that it would need more rehab work and I'd have to rent it out before i can refinance.

I was able to walk the sellers through a non-traditional seller financing closing with an attorney.