I am grateful they forced me to amend my screening system to one of serenity and a quiet phone. 

If there is no late fee, there’s also the option to amend the lease for Sept 1 putting in a late fee starting on whatever day you want and potentially a daily late fee starting after that.

I amended the contract for a Dec 23rd closing.

Get a amendment sign only changing the rent price. 

So already, I'm seeing this draw pretty solid legal challenge at a fundamental level:  namely its a violation of the 5th Amendment "...nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation". 

However, the rules and regulations don't have anything specifically calling that out, the only thing that is in there is this:  For any violation of the Declaration prohibition on short-term leasing, defined as any term less than six (6) months of occupancy for hotel or transient purposes, a fine of $1,000.00 per day will be assessed against the unit for first and subsequent violations.In conjunction with the below clause in a rental cap amendment, the board somehow conflated the two to come up with a $12,000 fine. 

It's possible to make amends and move forward with one's life.

(we have this in writing via lease amendment) Now they pay on time.  

A CPA chimed-in here and has said you might need to do more than an amended return at this point - have fun with all that.

All 97 of them. 3 make purchases (a bit optimistic, but lets go with it). 2 buy 300K houses to sell them for 350K. after fees and taxes they set the alarm clock and make amends with there W-2 boss, vowing never to do that again.1 guy buys a 75K house with cat piss deep into the sub flooring, tarped roof$$$ (HINT HINT), and a collapse sewer pipe (orange burg$$$  another HINT).