You may have to threaten to back out but you might be risking your earnest money.

We’ve had so many sleepless nights (they’ve sent people over to intimidate and threaten us by yelling at my wife and I from the street).

I tried telling her she’d be refunded 100% from Airbnb and she threatened me, repeatedly.

I am not able to purchase any other house without using those funds, so I am stuck staying in this Airbnb shared with a guy who coughs all night long and doesn’t have a car, always bothering me for rides and rolling papers, ect, eating my food, and yesterday he was yelling and waving a large kitchen knife around threatening his “friend of twelve years” and scaring the crap out of me. 

Guys, I'm late on this thread because I had to deal with dozens of tenants threatening not to pay a dime on our rents...but, as @Mike Lambert mentioned, I don't think expecting a V-shaped recovery is realistic at all for the real estate market.

I’m sure the fixed cost of running an apartment in NYC is high, you have a moratorium on evictions, a governor threatening civil war in a state telling citizens not to pay rent, and talking for 2 hours a day on national tv about how to make pasta.

@Mike TeriIt's going to take some time to find a sustainable path forward as even the A Paper Conventional Mortgage servicing sector is severely threatened by the stimulus package and it's forbearance allowances.  

Yes, we were seeing 26% returns, but we always had to to chase tenants, turn-overs were expensive and some tenants actually threatened our people with bodily harm.

They will want to stay for a week and not pay anything and they will threaten you with bad reviews if you don't do as they say. 

When these alemployees approach me it's always in a very aggressive and negative and sometime threatening fashion.