@Ludovic Ott  You would be able to essentially take out your down payment through a cash out refinance, but your property will need to have increased in value enough to do so. 

In California the Governor just issued an order that all non essential workers must stay home.

Cash will be necessary whether it's to float a long term rental experiencing abnormal vacancy, or to provide a contingency fund to cover cost overruns on a remodeling project.It takes time, but knowing rehab costs is essential if value-add is your goal niche.

Doug Ducey listed "essential services" that would be prohibited from closing...in other words, allowed to continue to operate.Real estate was included in "Professional services, including legal, real estate and accounting services."

However, last week inspectors were deemed essential in California so just keep calling.

These are going to be my tenants in my house and the only one I trust with their safety is me.

I understand the additional safety concerns it can possibly bring as well as possible inefficiencies in a property.

To me, that means you're going to have a large pool of residents who can't afford to rent a whole place and who aren't against living with others -- essentially, you've got a large pool of potential house-hacking/rent-by-the-room tenants.

(Or, they sell you a wire transfer for $30, but run it as an ACH for $0.40, and keep the $29.60...)One thing I've experienced with a couple of different online money-transfer things is that usually the service deposits a few small amounts into your account, asks you what the amounts were, and then withdraws them again, in order to verify that they're connected to the right bank account; it's essentially a PIN done with pennies. 

They essentially work exactly the same as properties that you invest indirectly: if you depreciate they throw off losses in early years (especially if you accelerate depreciation in which case they can throw off more passive losses than they produce in income).