Payment history (high impact)2.

From socal.....With Retail Properties being impacted by Covid, do you think its a good time to start investing on these rental properties?

The COVID-19 has not impacted vacant units and filling them.  

If it is prorated it will impact the numbers in your analysis because you are sharing in the expense.

Mostly by the weather and its impact on my aging properties.But at least I know now that grit and determination will eventually develop into surehandedness and coolheadedness, if I can just come out standing each time.

Due to Covid they had a Tennant themselves who failed to pay rent which caused them to fall behind in their mortgage payments and ultimately had a large impact on their credit. 

Get a good tenant in a LTR and you will be less likely impacted.

So when a company moves from California to Texas, it has twice as much impact on Texas as it does on California.What terrible policies are you referring to?

As far as topics go, I'd be most interested in hearing hyper-specific Austin topics, such as how to navigate the local permitting process, what are the newest and most impactful projects going up right now, how is current and pending local legislation affecting our business, etc.

It's a baby step in the grand scheme of REI, but it it can and should have an immediate impact on your situation, and this will get the hardest step out of the way; the first one.