COVID accelerated the work from home movement. 

I remain very surprised not to see movement in rents and the movement being up if anything.I just get this over whelming feeling that we are all holding our breath- and the sooner they can start testing the general public the sooner we can get back to life.Patrick M: "But NJ is weird because new MF's have to set aside a couple of lower income" what rule is this? 

I am with @Anthony Wick on not initiating anything.My other tenants are all teleworking.I am growing concerned about the spill off from this "cancel rent" movement and I am extraordinarily surprised that leaders and economists are not speaking out about it.

@Dell J. thanks for the gentle nudge, I'll continue moving forward and try to get out of my own way :)

If you have the right subfloor for tile, or are willing to replace what you have with what you need (plywood, hardibacker, additional labor), tile is the best product.Search youtube and BP for installation tips, but the basics are:-level, 3/4" subfloor - no movement (sometimes requires shimming or replacing joists)-layer of hardibacker or cement board -plan and play with your start/end points and layout with tiles before mixing any thinset/adhesive-aim to avoid "skinny cuts". try to have as many whole tiles and half tiles as possible-for floors: use a thinset (mortar based) product to adhere tiles to floor-for walls: use the thinset OR pre-mixed glue adhesive to adhere tiles to wall-after proper dry time, mix grout and apply to all seams.

Now you have all the DMM marketing companies pushing the movement that lists are awesome and DMM is awesome and it seems they themselves aren't friggin capable to deduct and analyse using simply logic for Pete's sake.The result?

As a fellow Long Island'er I def understand your reasoning behind out of state investing - however there is tremendous movements in the Long Island markets due to alot of different factors.

:Hello, an anesthesiologist who has been passive investing in multiple real estate ventures since 2007 (way before FIRE movement, and all of those physician blogs touting real estate investing in the last 2 years).  

The difference is when this money is located in the bank, instead of the equity, it has the ability to grow exponentially through reinvestment...and movement. 

Hey John - Movement Mortgage does 203k loans in Baltimore.