I own a condo in a 12 unit building in Boston and the condo docs require 100% approval from every owner to amend the condo docs.

Having said that, each state also has their own state building codes and their own amendments to follow, making it difficult to give blanket statements or hardened opinion without giving due regard to state amendments.

Tell her that you would need to amend the lease, but to start she needs to identify the doctor that is prescribing the support animal. 

If it should be the vacation property address - do I fix that by submitting Articles of Amendment to the State of Va?

Other language basically says he won't lose the deposit unless he backs out at the last minute.His bank now wants me to amend the contract saying the check will be returned to the buyer and to "please omit the earnest money completely from the contract". 

Once that lease runs out, only an amendment is needed.

After closing, a trust amendment can be done to make the bene be the trustee.

I use the standard NAR Hawaii lease which has no mention of pests, which I will definitely amend it moving forward.

I would present your estimates for what they are not willing to comply with, and either amend the contract with your reduced offer,  create novation with new offer, or avoid the contract and walk away.Stephen Gallagher 

Since you've already purchased this property, unless you can sell quickly and get most of your investment back out, your next step before considering any future purchase should be taking whatever steps you can to alleviate the flood zone problem -- are there grants for elevating the home, would flood vents help, possibly apply for letter of map amendment if the home is higher than the surrounding area, find out if the city is planning to buy it up and at what percentage of value.