Those funds will many times meet or exceed their regular income. 

Anyplace else is a gamble and having cash if it gets much worse would make you feel like you're shopping for deals at the dollar store.  

Then paint it with an oil-based kilz primer, then regular paint.

This bad handyman is accidentally looking to get promoted to just a regular handyman.

Can deduct unlimited real estate losses off regular wages, no income restrictions, and retroactively to 2018. 

Just looking at this article from NPR, the shift is already happening and doesn't look to be slowing :https://www.npr.org/2020/03/24/820624379/from-grocery-stores-to-pizza-delivery-some-companies-are-on-a-hiring-spreeWith thousands of displaced workers in other countries(think India), I expect the number of Upwork, Fiverr and Virtual Assistant jobs to vastly increase as well. 

Again, the BiggerPockets store has some books for this or you can learn by watching podcasts, reading blogs, and interacting on the forum.

If it was a deal that was larger than I am used to purchasing or included more units than I normally buy I would want to personally see it, but if they are the same type of properties that I have regularly been looking at and purchasing I would say viewing may not be the most important aspect.

I'm currently looking at a house on the HUD home store website.

How long before we just stop seeing so much on the store shelves because we don't do that in the USA?