Be sensitive and compassionate.

Reason 2: as much as you can be compassionate, it is not our role to take on other people's problems and end up broke. 

I am compassionate, but I don’t want to get burned.

There is nothing wrong with using some principles of Socialism to maintain a decent/compassionate society but the Socialists MUST be controlled and must be prioritized behind keeping the system running and it's Capitalism that keeps the system running.

I would make installment, like most compassionate people are doing.it  sound like they’re not that far behind and are try too do whatever they can.

I may be her landlord but I am also a compassionate person who doesn't care to throw an old lady and her cat out on her ***!

Your affinity for being compassionate will bankrupt you in this business .

But I have to remember to take off that hat and put on my business hat.I guess once the tenants have actually been placed, then maybe I can be more free to succumb to my naturally compassionate side, by being a responsible and respectful (albeit professional and businesslike) landlord.

Be cool to your tenants; be fair; be generous; be compassionate; follow the law.  4.

And it certainly helps compassionate landlords to comply with fair housing laws.