I can see various ways to work this out, but I'm not cutting hairs further.

I know - it's kind of splitting hairs...

I really wouldn't be surprised if this practice found itself in the cross hairs of government regulators.

Also if you were considering wholesaling, in this business if you even want to get a 5 second conversation with a note buyer you need to broker a note where you know the servicer, pay history, sellers color, how much hair is on the note, and legal and title status as well as property value and know what the property currently looks like.If you cannot answer these (or know what some of them mean), you will not be successful and may end up blackballing yourself.

My other suggestion, don't lose closing on the first home you love by trying to split hairs on a couple thousand dollars (which in this climate is like $2-3 higher monthly payment per $1K increase in sales price). 

The other reason it’s perfect is if a plank or two is damaged you can easily replace the one piece by warming it up with a hair dryer – pulling the piece out and setting in a new one.

I can see where the pm would want to return it to get them out of their hair but it is you that will loose out in this.  

@Sam Leon Definitely a curling iron or flat iron (hot hair tools).

It's hard to build a system of processes that works but once you have it, you'll stop pulling out your hair- maybe 

Originally posted by @John Underwood: I have NEVER had any increased cleaning fees from a pet. interesting, would have thought with all the hair there would be more.