Plus this house has our blood, sweat and tears so I don’t know that I’d want to see someone else take it over at this point.

I felt my blood pressure rise when she said that. 

It is still in my blood to continue looking but I either pass what I find to my many friends or family members.  

Check your blood sugars frequently for the first few days, just to make sure the insulin is working fine. 

As we all know the saying (except those in this thread) about "buying when there's blood in the streets".

Not to be harsh, but as soon as you started to offer discounts and concessions to them, you were screwed.....they already figured out you are a weak landlord and they can walk all over you....sorry.... you set a bad precedent.Now they may have stopped paying rent and bailed anyway, but with your previous behavior, they smelled blood in the water and knew you were ripe to get bitten even more.Best you can do is start the paperwork for failure to pay, eviction and follow the law....recover the property and move on.Its always a dilemma about  going after the $$ they will owe you....huge hassle and you will never see the $$....but you let them off the hook with no record for the next landlord to find out about.....

You will feel highs and lows and maybe it will get in your blood like it did to me.

." - Jim RohnTwo years of blood, sweat, and tears into starting my company I started to gain traction and began investing in real estate. 

Front yard was covered with blood from a deer that they hit and dismembered.

@Casey Roloff it was certinly blood, sweat and tears BUT....we made it!