Refinancing seems to come with so many compromises. 

Overall "North Dallas" and Texas in general are pretty safe.Im thinking you'll have to compromise on something on your list.

With that being said, our compromise is to find a house with an ADU or mother-in-law apartment in the basement that can be rented to offset a large chunk of the mortgage.We’re currently pre-approved and have been looking at properties that are matching our criteria.

As a result, the hesitation has mainly originated from realtors who were not willing to wait for the deal to close under our exacting standards.We have actually addressed this issue over the last year, making several steps to streamline our process, but never to the point of compromising our values. 

Instead of waiting patiently for a real deal to come along or altering their current or past approach so that they can ideally better locate a real deal, they start putting on their rose tinted glasses with ARVs, neighborhoods, and repair costs and compromising their math or analysis formulas because, darn it, doing any deal has to be better than not doing a deal at all, RIGHT??

I don't have a specific market for you, but my two cents is you might have more success hitting both high cash on cash return & appreciation with a STR rather than a LTR.Best of luck in your search, but remember: real estate, as in all things, is a game of compromises... and if everything is a priority, nothing is a priority.

You'll have to compromise and fit into their system. 

Seller finds out information he told his agent in confidence is used to compromise the purchase price, influence the principles, and therefore the deal becomes a deal in bad faith.... 

Maybe a compromise solution might work, offer to put them up somewhere while work is being done, if they can not be worked around.

Once you approve someone, you need to move forward, if you have not done that, you should be ok.Talk to the applicant and see if you can compromise and have them move in one week instead of two