My guess ---- he probably just wants to see if your offer would be reasonable to him without the anxiety of trying to haggle, as he probably assumes that you will be able to negotiate face-to-face better being that it is your business.. 

What was initially an exciting first process has turned into an anxiety filled burden.

Can anyone relate to my anxiety??

From an agent perspective it has been telling to see how sellers respond at this request, which is usually somewhere on the spectrum between anger and anxiety.  

Networking has always been a struggle for me, but that's do to my own anxiety and something I'm working on everyday.

We are not high anxiety people or micro-managers.

Even if one plans to self manage, the ability of tenants to easily contact me on social media brings me a bit of anxiety.

SFH when between renters bring in ZERO $$$$ thus causing anxiety and stress when vacant.4.

Excitement makes me think of 'anxiety' and both excitement and anxiety makes investors blind.

For self storage, I imaging the presumption is that customers would pay their unit rent during this week.If I had to guess, more than a few of those folks were responding to the anxiety and fear of late March.But late payment is not non-payment.