Would you feel safe walking around?

After going this route, and further analyzing the property that I was looking at, with the higher interest rate, HOA fees, non-investor-friendly co-op rental policies, I walked away.

As Chris noted, for all the news about how terrible they are, and a little of it is true from my post-COVID experiences walking around SF, NYC and LA, a lot of it, I think is blown a bit out of proportion.  

This is basically giving the tenant the right to just walk out and not be responsible for a lease they signed. 

You can lower the price.The buyer can pay the extra $9k in cash, if they have it.The buyer can walk away with their earnest money and you can lower the price $9k for the next buyer or require them to bring $9k in cash. 

Could you make 10 or 100 videos for a business you could walk to today?   

Also, walk the area..

Walk the props, It will take 15 minutes to understand pricing, 

so after reading all the posts, it sounds like his best bet is just to move on and walk away finding another place maybe coming back in future to keep contact with that person if he really wants that location… Correct me if I’m wrong, but my analysis from all this is that hiring a squatter would only be applicable in situations where the person who is occupying the residence never had a lease or contract therefore it is a rare circumstance where it would be a viable option. 

After the walk-through, they will see if the tenant has interest in renting, and if yes, they would sent them the questionnaire so they, and I quote, "save the tenant the $60 for application fee", in which within the questions it would be things such as, if they have pets, yearly income, cosigners, if credit score is above a certain number, etc.