Any other sympathy is unfortunately just Poor Business Practice.  

Your perspectives have been incredibly helpful as I navigated how to handle the situation.Here’s how I just responded to the tenant:I expressed sympathy for their situation and the loss of their pets.

This community is full of helpful resources.First of all, my deepest sympathies and condolences for your situation.

I want nothing from you, I am not asking for help or money, I do not need sympathy. 

I don't have much patience or sympathy towards the annual flood of "Terrific End-of-Year Tips to Cut Your Taxes" webinars, podcasts, articles and whatnot. 

These squatters don’t deserve my sympathy at all—one non-paying tenant even drives a BMW SUV and has never paid a dime!

Which leads to other posters to offer no sympathy for those investors and then the name calling started.

And I feel the most limited sympathy for it.

I've also spoken to attorneys who say that judges have more sympathy for people who represent themselves in these kinds of matters.I'd say look into how you can do it yourself AND speak to multiple attorneys for their input (most first consultations are complimentary) THEN decide how to move forward with the partition.All the best!

So yeah, my sympathy potential is VERY limited.