Its always better to communicate and come to an agreement.

The Bank also communicates with the title company to order chain of title and require lender/title insurance. 

Does communication matter most?

We manage all of our properties in house, including maintenance and repairs.I’m looking for something that has text communications and maintenance work orders and logs.  

All are necessary, honestly we did our direct book site to piggy back off VRBO, air and a local site we use. 90% of it is repeat bookings that like to communicate with us through that direct book site vs some protected site like air.we send out a mass email to all our guests using hostfully email capture and offer 5% off the lowest direct booking price which still nets us more than we get for the same booking through the platforms.we do all of it, direct, local and the platforms, we continue to have good success and our clients/guests love it.as far as the price for the website development- to be honest we had a great year one year and needed a write off so that was a factor as well. bottom line is people find you in so many ways, we don't want to eliminate any of them.

Very easy communication and they have vendors on call if work is needed on the house, like my did.

Perhaps you are eager to move on from this property (emotionally) given the history, but given the facts you have outlined-- it seems like a fortuitous asset to stand by :)Hope this helpful and good luck!

If it's part of the contract that the seller will take care of all of the village inspection items and now he's refusing then your attorney (if your using one) should be communicating to the seller that he will be in breach of the contract if he does not take care of the items. 

Documentation is Key Gather all the communication you've had with the contractor, records of payments, and any information about the work done.

I would make sure communication to them is done in advance of this change to make sure they understand what if any tax implications this has