I am in the process of accepting a 2 month lease month to month for a retired service member and wanted to just document his service animal as being on the property. 

My market of central OH has some isolated areas that are like this, and in those areas, its generally accepted as "the way it is" but those areas are also very desirable and "hip" so there is a give and take persey.

They came back demanding $30,000, but we knew they weren’t going to accept anything.

I they accepted an offer of $118K from my brother but since he couldn't get the loan, we're starting over.

I accepted the connect invite.

Were obviously “reverse engineered” to find a way to “back into” an attractive or at least acceptable cap rate3.

Silence is not acceptable. 

It is also the seller's fault for accepting it, they full well knew this was not right.If you were to file for eviction for non-payment of rent, you'd probably win.

There are a lot of deals to be done with them if you can adapt to their process and accept they will be very slow. 

I will then make the offer It will get accepted, I will get a contract, one page AS IS, It will go to title, they will send me the HUD, we close about 10 days or less.