The only exceptions are cases where public health or safety is involved."

With the current global health crisis, virtual meetings work too! 

Over the ten plus years between the Global Financial Crisis and the current health crisis, Retail underwent a radical transformation driven by the growth of e-commerce and many companies failed to evolve and took on too much debt, resulting in numerous bankruptcies and thousands of store closures.

A few weeks ago my partner put some thoughts down on it's implications for real estate investors like ourselves across these categories:RetailHotel & HospitalityMultifamilyOfficeWarehouseI wanted to share it with the Bigger Pockets community:By now every American is aware of the unprecedented public health emergency and economic disruption caused by COVID-19.

I did, many times over, and this is the decision we made.Best of luck to all, and stay safe in your investments and health.

If you go straight to the seller agent they will probably just take both sides of the commission so you're not going to have a vastly more competitive offer.If you're in a hot market and think you can get 50k off asking when people are still paying full price then you might be wasting the agents since the COVID scare hasn't had that big of an impact on real estate thus far. 

@Kevin Lin I think health and welfare or life or death are still allowable reasons to evict.

There are ways to defer until you pass away and then you can give your heirs your real estate tax free.So don't be scared to look at them. 

I'd say it's a large enough item that will scare the seller.If it's a significant foundation issue might want to let someone with expertise handle it or budget to have an expert deal with it.

Who's to say once the COVID-19 scare blows over the condos start selling for more??