In fact, the politicians who are exploiting rent control are willing to lose tax revenue for the municipalities that they claim to "care so much" about as assessments will be lowered when properties begin to sell for less because their incomes have been reduced and therefore devalued the property.Rent control is only about votes for slimy and power hungry politicians.

My predictions for a couple of scenarios:Corona increases > second shut down > More unemployment > more loan forbearances > flood of business bankruptcy's and loan defaults > banks have big problem > fed bails out banks > some banks fail > real estate prices stay the same or go up until early 2021 > Fed will probably do another cares act and extent forbearance period > then it is possible the dollar will continue to devalue > then inflation will occur > real estate prices will go way up as dollar becomes worthless and banks fail > central banks switch from us dollar to Crypto > politically, either way the election goes we will have instability and unrest.

In my opinion even if the hedge funds decided to start selling they wouldn't flood the market and sell all at once as it would only devalue their own assests in the process.The inventory increases we are seeing are returning the market to a more healthy supply and demand levels...it is only concerning if it continues to increase at this rapid rate for a long period of time.

The advantage for the buyer when a owner charges below market rents is that they devalue their investment property.

The inspection gives you some things that you can devalue the market price  offer with (lack of permitting for space can be one of those). 

Sorry, I am not the least bit interested in devaluing my service.

This will greatly devalue the worth of my property.

Although now I see a few U tubers jumping on and predicting another massive devaluation event in the coming months.  

Then that living space gets devalued by 50%.

No matter what, the building is now devalued from what it was when you made your offer and even if you walk, they'll have to take less for it next time.