Any attempts will be seen as weakness and encourages more bad behavior.

Weak sauce.  

They can't lock the country or world down forever, they are merely killing the economy in the process of trying to save the weak, when the weak will die anyways.

Leverage is tested during a weak market. 

in my market in the midwest ,i donot see rents going down.i owe mostly class b properties.in 2008 and 2000 , i actually was able to raise rents,because i had alot of class a tenants where coming to my properties.i see this time a liitle different ,but i think rents in apts and duplexes will stay even.alot of fellow landlords will renew their rents at same price.they will be scared to raise renewals.in the apts and duplexes the landlords who know how to market better will be alright.the landlords who do not market their properties all year will be hurt.we have learned if you market your places even when no vacanies it helps.so when you get one ,you sort of have a waiting list. were i think you will have the problem ,will be in single homes.that is the person that has been most effected by cov-19.most were white collar, not essential jobs in our state of wis.it will hurt when trying to rent that property ,because your pool of tenants will be smaller.in the plus side ,if that is your market you should be able to add units at a good price.because like renters,that same market of homeowners is getting effected.foreclosures will be coming in 6 months.where i see the big problem coming is commercial properties.you could see a 25 vacancy in that area.alot of retail ,will never reopen.who knows how low their prices could go.what i know for sure, will the landlords who thought being a landlord was easy the last couple of years will disappear like in 2008 and 2000. their weakness in running their business will come front and center and they will sell out .i see some starting to bail already,and we have started to have problems.the no evictions has shown in our state already, which landlords have good screening process.because most of tenants not paying our tenants they should have not took in the  first place.we have good tenants that have lost jobs,but they have found a way to pay.between stimulas check,unemployment checks ,savings ,or payments plans ,or temporary gigs.we had problem with only 1 tenant last month,out of 155.that is with a building we just bought,we have not been able to train her in our way of doing business.you can tell by her way of talking she is  belively in her mind she does not have to pay rent.and with no threat of evictions ,nothing we can do.that is where goverment has to stay out of our business.we even got of  her rent covered by local help assocaitions ,but she is to lazy to go to them.that is most of the same kind of tenants ,most landlords every problems with in our local apt assoc.

With a vigorous but randomly appointed timeline,  coupled with a 2 question (weak) why, I see a motivated buyer. 

You even mentioning he tenant being responsible for weed removal (weeds coming up in a fully grassed lot verses no grass and 100% weeds) is just weak, and trying to avoid your own obvious obligation.  

My case would be pretty weak if I had to "prove" she was staying there to a judge, I would think.  

As someone said, this is a correction and survival of the fittest in terms of asset classes, the bad and weak will be flushed out.

She made weak efforts to pay me back over time.