You will not find any inviting of your desire to work around from within the system because all of us, were in the system, we bite that bullet, paid our pound of flesh.   

Its better to be pound wise and not stress the small fee in comparison to the headache and potential mistakes in my opinion. 

Weighs about 500 pounds.

Will be 3/4 pounds in 4 months and about 2 ponds in 9 months. 

Please keep in mind this is for vehicles over 6k pounds. 

You get that pound pup.

Everyone takes pictures of everything nowadays, we all have phones in our hands constantly, so I don't believe they don't have pictures.Your Contractor is right in not re-pouring the driveway while it is so cold, so I would believe his story.I would stick to your generous offer to deduct a few bucks off of the rent (maybe $100) for their troubles and then tell them to go pound sand.

Does this go with the territory or should I tell my renters to pound sand for anything beyond health/safety?

The hardest part is when they put a fishula in your arm it now limits your abilty to lift over 10 pounds and removes me from having the abilty to go work hard to support myself. 

After selling that house, and converting pounds to dollars, we bought another owner-occupied house in AZ, a "pretty house."