They were listing it for 450K, the agent said he himself would buy it for 320K "out of sympathy for their situation".

My sympathies.

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.

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

But I have no sympathy for the bad actors in our business whose actions perpetuate that perception.

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

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.

I had a stroke a few years ago and my wife did not inform me about getting a renewal notice and The Texas Real Estate Commission had no sympathy to me and told me I would have to start all over even though they had made about $10,000 from me over those 30 years.It is good that you and your spouse are working together to get involved in real estate investment. 

I was ready to let her go feeling sympathy of her husband’s job loss.

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.