Anybody break into real estate during Covid?

Interest rates are too low and too much money being printed.

Every investment property has doubled or tripled in the last 18-24 months.

I closed on 11 April 2020 from a friends dad looking to get out of rentals all together. Took advantage of low rates to refi my house and drop 1% and take enough equity for the down payment and kept my saved cash (was only looking to buy 2 more originally) so I could take some profits right away. Bought them for 850k, put down 20%, did a commercial loan 4.5% I think it is 5yr amortized for 20. They appraised for 976k. I did have some concern over them not paying with the covid mess but up to this point there was only 1 guy who stopped paying and ran into issues BUT I worked with him and a entity here in town that got some fresh printed monies for rental assistance. Got my 9,500 owed.

Not sure if I went about it the absolute best way but it has worked out well and I paid a extra 20k on the loan after the first year after paying everything including the extra $ on my primary house with taking some of the equity out.