I was home owner and a landlord back in my 30s I let them go during the last crisis.

Suck it up til the covid crisis passes.

They are in some kind of crisis, other landlords have turned them down.When you tell them they must fill out the application completely, and they don't - deny them. 

If your profit is based on a human's behavior, you might want to brush up on diplomatic/negotiating skills.

That's not to say you shouldn't diversify, take profits, and hedge, but that should be an ongoing strategy, not one employed during crisis times.  

One of the solutions to the "housing crisis" is for government to encourage businesses to locate facilities in areas where there is a lower cost of life and higher housing supplies. 

I was an adolescent during the 08 housing crisis, unaware of what was happening in the housing market.

Sometimes they just don't function well in a crisis and telling them to call their agent when they don't remember where they put that info, just makes them hard to deal with. 

. - laws that were put in place because of the lender insanity during the mortgage crisis during 2008 crash. 

.), the ones calling him for a fire sale listing back in '89 (S&L crisis) or '01 (dot com bubble) were the ones with the higher monthly payments, not the ones with the higher interest rate.