I could have actually taken more on the refi loan and approached a perfect BRRRR (lender approved up to 347.5k) but I choose a slightly lower loan amount for a couple of reasons.

Thanks makes perfect sense.

It won't be perfect but embrace the "handcrafted" imperfection of your floors. 

If you had this language in place, failure to report the fleas would also be a violation of the lease, because the longer a pest goes unreported, the more damage they do, the harder (and more costly) eradication is.This might not help you in this situation (though I agree withholding the deposit was a perfectly reasonable move), but hopefully it would help you avoid a similar situation in the future.

I'm not saying any of them are perfect, but if the data is outdated, then the whole program's a waste! 

Most of the time this high-maintenance tenancy comes from either a naivety on the reality of homes (they are basically living, breathing things and NONE of them are perfect) OR from a previous landlord who trained them in these bad habits.It's no guarantee that the retraining program will work, but so far each time these tenants have reached out with a creak, or a caulking issue, or something like that it was been met with an informational session on WHY this issue is happening and what they can do the next time. 

@Theo Hicks with the perfect info for you!

That range is well within lending guidelines and you can be perfectly confident that if you offer your easy-qualify home for a price around the average of what other sellers are asking, you shouldn't have any trouble moving it.

It's bad enough you have a ticking clock but clogging it up with an attorney just makes it a perfect storm scenario for a failure.

I took an online class which was perfect for my busy schedule.