Grant an easement.  

We were lucky enough to receive some federal grant money to help fund the renovation.

@Justin FoxYou may be eligible for FEMA grants for your personal home for contents and damage (not income based). 

Sorry, when you do a subject to most people would go through a title company and do a standard grant deed to transfer title.

If I would be doing rentals I would also be buying a job... granted, with the right properties, they would be less maintenance intensive than the car wash, i'm sure. 

Granted, it will be taken care of by the management company so I suppose this should be an non issue if I have a good management company.Numbers wise, these properties make perfect sense.  

Have the tenants apply to FEMA for grant money.

Granted, there are other factors that are causing a population boom and supply is tight, so I believe prices will continue to rise steadily.

However, this new buyer is threatening to get attorneys involved because he seems to think that this is not a encroachment granted in perpetuity.I think my folks are in the clear on this due to the nature of the language in the agreement but the last thing I want to have happen is get lawyers involved and have them have to pay to move the tank since, technically speaking, they are in the wrong.Don't have any experience/advice in this matter?

But I was granted the house in the divorce.