Admittedly it's kind of bogus but as an agent you can't control it unless you personally eat it.

or any other event that is outside of you and the seller's control.

If the standstill goes on for a month I fear the outcome may be worse than we'd like to see.Hopefully we get things under control and back to work quickly.

Besides tacitly giving the tenant the control by "confirming receipt" it also will require that I make a separate trip back to that property to inspect that particular unit on a date different than the others at the property I inspected on the planned day. 

Clean and disinfectBelow is a link to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) which describes the outlined topics in more detail.https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prepare/prevention.html We hope you are safe and enjoying time with your family.

Thanks for any input you can offer and stay positive, the one thing you can control is your attitude...even that is hard sometimes!

Doing it this way may delay maintenance issues from getting addressed but you will have a bit more control over where and when your money is allocated. 

It was a set of very unfortunate circumstances that were mostly out of my control, yet I ended up paying the price, in multiple ways.

This clause allows parties to back out of a contract due to "Acts of God" or by events that are outside the control of either party (flood, tornado, war, etc.) - consult your attorney to see if this applies in your case.Unless there's a valid contractual reason for backing out, your deposits are at risk. 

The government is basically giving said people an allowance through quantitative easing because of such.Long story short is that the government is in COMPLETE control of this one and the rules are very different than they've ever been in the past.