Surely the listing agent would be cooperative, if not leading the charge, in meeting the BPO agent or appraiser, pointing out all the flaws in the house and the neighborhood, bringing their own BPO to hand over as a suggestion, and building a little sympathy for the homeowner who is under hardship and just trying to move on with their life.

My dreams of a six-figure payday started to melt away and I started to feel sympathy for his plight.

There might be sympathy in the investments you illustrated - bonds and real estate both falling, for example - but that fall, unless those pulling their money out of those vehicles are stuffing their mattresses, is going to buoy something else.

Sympathies go out, @Jon Holdman , to you and family.

Who I really have sympathy for is the parents who have to do remote schooling, I don't know how I would do that and work FT, it would be a nightmare, those tenants I do see having hard choices of bad and worse.

Play to their sympathies like, "I'm sure you remember starting out broke and needing a little help."

IMO their best bet is to cut their losses and move on............ but that's too much like right. either way they'll learn when the new buyer either can't close or it's sat so long that buyers have other choices due to the excess inventory out there. i have no sympathy for banks nowadays.

Tell your story with sympathy.

@Peter VekselmanIt’s always buyer beware and blows my mind that people will spend a week googling what type of coffee maker, computer, tv or clothing but when it comes to signing up for a guru they literally do no background research With the amount of info in the internet today, I do not feel much sympathy for people who spend five figures on a two day training and are upset because they didn’t leave the training with ability to 10x their investment.

I have no sympathy with these types.