@Narayanan Bakthisaran Appraisers can be unreasonable at times. 

With the high demand for home inspector professionals, it has become a major hurdle to schedule one in short time spans. 

What were the hurdles that delayed the process?

My biggest hurdle is I live in California and ROI is not really here.

This would allow you to jump a lot of the hurdles that stop folks without the SSN... 30k is enough to do some damage, especially if you find a partner to pool money with. 

Is this timeframe unreasonable? 

Look at disappointment as hurdles to clear, rather than impenetrable walls that stop you in your tracks.Reward SuccessAs hard as starting a new business is, you need to make sure you look at the positives, too.

@Jack MoranYou may run into some hurdles with banks and hard money lenders simply because of your loan amount request on the front end. 

My thoughts:- Unusual to reduce rent without the owner's permission and odd that they would drop you as a client when I assume they charge a % each month to manage and is in their best interest to keep you as a client unless you start making demands that are unreasonable or take up a large part of their time- I don't think a move-in special is necessarily a bad idea, depends on the location.

@Robert Biggerstaff$25/pet is not unreasonable.