Since the beginning of the pandemic, property owner Matthew Haines said he has lost a quarter of a million dollars in rental income from tenants who did not pay him rent.

“I’ve never woken up having panic attacks before this year,” said Haines, 53, who owns and manages 253 rental units in the Dallas area through his firm Tangent Group. “All of this is because we can’t control and run our business.”

He worries about providing for his family, keeping his employees and whether he should sell the buildings and single-family homes he owns, which have been his livelihood for 27 years, he said.

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