See if your lease has similar language.

The owners and managers deny they discriminated against families with children but agreed to resolve the matter through the Conciliation Agreement.Under the terms of the agreement, the owners and property managers will pay IFHMB $10,000, abolish any two-person-per-bedroom policy, remove language regarding the two-person-per-bedroom policy from advertising and marketing materials, and have property managers and staff that interact with applicants and tenants attend fair housing training.

As soon as you start hearing a client use bigger pockets type terms, like "house hacking" or "brrrr" or "1% rule," you want them with a LO on biggerpockets.com, no one else knows or uses this peculiar vocabulary, ideally you want everyone speaking the same language.

To answer your question - yes, you will need an attorney who will represent you in this and make sure that you have the right language and protection in the docs but he will not tell you if it’s a “good deal” or not. 

More CA specific info here - https://expressevictions.com/c...And this one says tenant must prove both that you accepted the payment AND did not notify them that partial payment would be insufficient.https://www.justia.com/trials-...So, post a new letter and include language that partial payments are not sufficient (and maybe put the legal phrase "accepted with reservation" that some other states require, as well).

My fault, I'm sure; I probably didn't use the correct language and spoke to something I was unaware.

Languages.

.- cancel the deal and walk away and get your deposit back, but first, confirm the language in the contract.As a buyer, you don't really want to challenge the appraisal because it's in your best financial interests now that it appraises low.

The specific details are not as important as the language used to document the terms.   

The house was purchased through seller financing, and the loan docs contain standard fannie owner-occupant language.