More than I could count cause in this market it happen to me so why not just buy the property yourself, eliminate the stressful seller and deal with another kind of stress with 75% you mention.In this business your always going to have some sort of stress but I believe getting stress from agents wasting your time is much more better stress than sellers constantly changing thier mind and inflicting false hope that your might or might not have a deal.

Not the case, the reality is the we are creatures of habit, to change this habit you have to inflict a bit of pain and like Tracy mentioned up the fee.

Self-inflicted are the worst kind.  

But we meet so many potential tenants that unfortunately have, by self inflicted or bad luck circumstance, no other option.

They are accusing me of violating the rental cap of 25% and referencing a clause in the rules and regs for short-term rental inflictions to come up with an arbitrary $12,000 fine (see below) because there exists no fine associated with rental cap violations. 

The fact that my children have rebounded and are doing great, while San Francisco becomes a craven cesspool, due to their self-inflicted measures, makes it all the sweeter. 

If you like self inflicting pain, buy a hammer and slam it into your toe.

Yet, this is the less worrisome part of the damage inflicted by this tenant.

It's interesting that some of their problems seem to be self-inflicted.

They do know you can take them to court, they may know you can garnish their accounts or not to some level, and they may assume to infinity that you can inflict all sorts of financial pain, if you spell it out to them.