However, inspectors are humans, if you are a huge pain in the neck, rude, arrogant, habitual offender, etc.

Needing a $100k may be 5 days of cash-flow for someone like Grant, but that's a high enough number to scare most of us from ever getting started, me included.Sacrifice and exercise your saving muscle to prevent schemes and scams, shortcuts and bad partnerships.  

With that being said my neck of the woods may be different than your area so I would try to go to your local REIA and or try to see if there is a facebook group you can find out what is customary amongst private lenders.

It has a garage as well with off street parking which is huge in this neck of the woods. 

Nice to see someone from our neck of the woods. 

It's possible to find 1.5-2% Rule properties in my neck of the woods.

Hey Isuf, I myself have a 2 family in the Throgs Neck section of the Bronx.

For future loan questions, I recommend asking @Chris Mason, he's a lending wizard in your neck of the woods, can't imagine a better resource for you.

The want to make a little bit more on their investment without moving a muscle and I use capital for flips, I assume all liability, work and selling of property.

If so, they owe you additional compensation for that as well.That said, unless there is something funky going on with the temporary easement, its probably not worth engaging a lawyer for just a very small amount - however, the way legal representation often works for eminent domain cases (at least in our neck of the woods), is that lawyers are willing to take the case for a "%-age of the increase".