When the transaction didnt close, you simply should have received your funds back.So what Im seeing here is the guilty party is probably the title company.

It was a lot of effort on my part for a small win, and I'm glad I did it. 

A little over three years ago, I was managing everything in Excel and simply got tired of it.

They can't fully win with the pundits, no matter what they do.2) The Fed is not an all-knowing entity.

So many groups that were started in the last 10 years, simply didn't even know the risks existed on their deals.

Simply scroll to the bottom and you can actually interact with clients like @Bill B. who have direct experience working with that QI.If you have a comfort level working with someone local that is perfectly fine. 

If you simply ask the tenant to resign the lease and then there were issues I could see them claiming deception to coerce a lease signing, so at minimum I'd likely shar with them there was a recent court ruling and you need to revise to make your lease legal.That said even if your lease is void I believe the tenancy would be governed by State law.

Its a little more expensive but when our tenants put in maintenance requests we can simply forward those to our contractors.

Then, upon resale, does this private lender simply inform the title company of the payoff?

It was a law that simply explicitly states something that was lreay allowed.