He told me the whole thing was a "misunderstanding" and I should rent to him.

We have to go to the tax assessor's office every time to do an address search.Rick Harmon: Thanks for clearing up my misunderstanding on the info I had acquired at the courthouse.

This is more layman misplaced fear spurred from misunderstandings.  

Unless I misunderstanding something

IF there is an error (this could be your misunderstanding) then the title company who prepared the closing statement made an error.....start with them.Note: someone prepared a prelim closing statement, hopefully the title co. who knows how to do it correctly.  

Josh asked me to write some blogs last time I spoke to him, might put some material together and do that for him and that should cut down on misunderstandings mentioned above.

I had misread the tone of your first message and the misunderstanding was definitely on my part.

Theres a lot of junk analysis and misunderstanding out there but this is a long-term structural trend IMO

Maybe I am misunderstanding. 

All of the leases I have ever used have a section that breaks down utilities, and this is something that often can turn into a misunderstanding down the road.