I feel your pain. My advice would be to do what we did and find a really great rental house (perhaps in the area where you’d like to eventually buy) and hunker down for the next few months (or years)until things are less weird. The truth is that nobody knows how this is all going to pan out with all of the government intervention. Why fight over the few crummy houses available to buy? Wait until buying conditions are more in your favor. It’s better to keep liquid in these uncertain times anyway.
