This helps make year-long leases more accessible to renters and loosens restrictions on landlords who are open to shorter-term leases.

Sign that lending is loosening.

I have loosened up our requirements also since we haven't found anything (ie we were asking 650 credit, now just saying "no overdue accounts or evictions"), we're allowing dogs/cats with smaller fees than others in the area.I think some issue is the neighborhood isn't as nice as the house.

And it seems you now recognize that because you are now willing to loosen your requirements with respect to type of pets.

Did the tenant admit that she loosened the bolts or moved the toilet herself? 

Bottom line, his weight had loosened the floor screws, damaged the flange, and water had been leaking into the subfloor and had damaged the subfloor. 

Just keep picking at the center part of it to loosen it, consider removing the little wooden bobbers by either untying the knots that hold them or cutting the string and retying them on later- if those are out of the way it becomes easier.  

They tightened up after the financial crisis and have been loosening up since then.

In the early aughts, the government forced lenders into loosening their standards which led to the housing crisis. 

You may also have to loosen the rental policy to get it rented and to start getting some cash flow.