Waiving the inspection simply means you are willing to lose your earnest money to get the deal under contract.  

I actually managed to lose money even as a long-time GC with a partner who had deep, deep pockets. 

Tenancy laws freezing rents during Covid until end 2021 and only allowing to increase rent (5% ish) once every 12 months - the landlord is definitely losing potential capital.What could/would you do in both the Landlord and Tenant situations?

There would be a 3-strike you’re out rule for violations with an increasing fine structure for the owners before losing their license for the remainder of the 2 year period.

So here's the bill:1 Service call (July Special) 1.00 $100.00 $30.00(30.00%)No Tax $70.002 Labor (defrost and clean condenser coil) 2.00 $100.00 $20.00(10.00%)No Tax $180.003 Co2 Coil Cleaning 1.00 $25.00 $1.25(5.00%)$1.43(6%)$25.184 R-410a Refrigerant 2.00 $65.00 $0.00 $7.80(6%)$137.80Subtotal (without tax) $403.75Taxes $9.23Grand Total ($) $412.98As an aside, the fact that vendor added refrigerant is a red flag to me, as it's my understanding that cooling systems generally don't lose refrigerant unless there's a leak, in which case the leak needs to be addressed.TL;DR: AC not cooling.

Thanks to new lender and great Realtor we didn't lose the investment property.

Also you are losing money with a couple months vacancy. 

The 34-year-old owner of the business told me, he could not send employees to do the job, because he would lose money!

I have a deal that may be in jeopardy in Polson MT.  We have been through 2 months of appraisals with 2 different appraisers both of which have refused to appraise our property because they claim that there is a lack ...

I don't want to lose out on any of them as they will probably sell to someone else if I don't get them.