Accept less and they will walk all over you the next time they have a problem.You need to be researching the government programs that are being rolled out for rent payment assistance due to COVID 19.  

In the short term, looking for one to walk a property with me to help estimate rehab costs and then once the time comes obviously complete the renovations.

If you had a closing date of November, why is it that you can only now walk away?

They can either vacate the premises during showings, or have strangers walking around while they're home. 

I had to provide comps to support my rental price to make sure its a fair market (pretty loose term in my opinion) and then they had to schedule a walk through and check out the unit. 

Another tenant got mugged within a couple of weeks of moving in when she walked to the market down the block. 

Wondering if other landlords have come up against issues here, ie. current tenants not wanting strangers walking through their house, etc.

Feel free to PM me and I can walk you through what worked for me.

Once we got the property under contract we had our contractor and our PM walk the property with us, after discovering quite a bit of deferred maintenance we showed the seller how much repairs were going to be in order to get his up to market value, at which point he lowered the price and mades ome repairs him self.

You'd walk with maybe $13k and maybe a better rate.