When the bottom is hit and it seems as it prices will start to inch up, lending will loosen, and the mania will begin again.  

If it’s the latter, there’s just not going to be much you can do about that until banks and mortgage companies loosen their already tightening underwriting criteria.However, if this is because of some standard element of your business that you’re frequently going to run in to, and it has nothing to do with COVID-19, then I have a few thoughts.

Although they have recently loosened up on some restrictions. and 2.

They can loosen over time, especially if there is any aluminum wiring. 

Freddie Mac loosened their their guidelines and dropped the requred 2 year landlord history in order to use the rents to qualify.

Once you feel confident you have a strong buyers list you can loosen up a little bit on your offers.Double dip w/ listing agent every time, even if your licensed.Best of luck!

With higher standards of liquidity and leverage that U.S. banks will have to adhere to by 2015, most banks are tightening up the purse strings, not loosening them.

Then everything started loosening up after that.

I highly doubt that lending restrictions would loosen up to 2006.

Cash is tight, stop waiting for it to loosen while you could be collecting SOMETHING instead of NOTHING.