Banks give preference to owner occupants and often insist on holding period restrictions.

The party paying the bill (aka seller) will always be served better.Personally, where this comes up, I insist on my own agent or I will decline to proceed with the transaction.

It's times like these that I'm thankful to insist upon first/last/deposit and only do monthly leases anyways. 

I spoke to 3 lenders today and all insist on me using my own name and transferring after closing which is yet additional fees.

OR keep up the lender search for someone who will loan to you after 6month seasoning, though you will need a commercial loan if you insist on buying in the LLC name. you can't lend on this house as your primary, because it's not your primary, unless you actually live in it.

Then they get there and list off all the reasons they don't want to buy the house I knew they were never going to buy, but they insisted on seeing.

If they insist on the showing - proceed with it, just don't take application referring to pending case of another one.Nobody advices anything illegal here or discriminatory!

the woman is insisting she stay for the next two months paying her half and that's it's our responsibility to go after him for his half.

The bank will insist that it be listed but an offer in hand is attractive, especially if you can show that the home needs work.

Of course, the bank insisted upon the $300,000.Nonetheless, if the appraisal you get is way off from your asking price, you will have no choice but to lower.