You and your guests/invitees agree to release and hold Owner and his Agent(s) harmless for any damages or accidents caused by and/or related to inclement weather conditions.

Building a truly profitable business on the other hand takes enduring skill, patience intelligence and effort.

@Alexander Szikla This thinking is appropriate sometimes, but in this case the moose has already endured an avalanche.

Myself, I endured a thorough lashing by my CPA on how I should have booked some more write-off's, acquired some book losses, yes I 100% would have LOVED to had some more deal with book losses.

@Chris Martin how would you respond to the thesis that market deviation from this long-term trendline will endure (maybe not to the current extent) in fast-growing cities like Raleigh because of American population movements in the aftermath of Covid and remote work? 

Sometimes you get lucky but it's gonna be question of endurance with these things.

It's better to find out now that they can't afford your place than to endure brain damage for several months and find out they can't afford it.I guarantee if you enforce the late fees this time if will greatly decrease your chances of getting late rent in the future.

For anyone who rents to military or ex-military (which I do since we are on the Canadian border and have lots of Coast Guard and ex-military Border Patrol, the delays they endure for regular pay, GI bill payments, etc. is regular, routine and is not always because of a gov't shutdown.

I have asked around and many landlords would rather charge more for rent to pay for the heat than endure the cost to split the system and push the cost on the tenant.

We don't have ANY Inclement Weather.