Ask the seller's agent to put their counter offer in writing.

We did receive the ROW request in writing from TxDOT.

I did wake up to an email yesterday offering a 15 minute call with @Dutch Mendenhall for this (Friday) afternoon, but as I told them (and have remained consistent with since this started), all communications have to be in writing. 

With permit, benefits are 1) get depreciation and other tax write off benefits since it’s a permitted investment purpose ADU, 2) probably better for resell value, 3) have a separate address and don’t have to bother sorting out mails for our legal tenant, etc. without permit; benefits are 1) no hassle to get the permit, 2) no permit fees, 3) no tax on rental income (as it is more like a “roommate”)Has anyone gone through a similar situation before?

.- Do be open-minded though as we have many of the above from tenants who claim we illegally evicted them (so, somehow we got a signed Write illegally?)

You can write something up with the owner but you will need to get an SOL with the State of Texas https://www.tdhca.state.tx.us/mh/ownership-location.htm 

However, going to the unit, seeing what needs to be taken care of, writing it up, submitting to a manager, going to Home Depot and then doing said work takes time. 

Syndicators write blogs for their own websites and also for other websites such as BP, Entrepreneur, Forbes, etc.

@Henry Clark Your writing skills is excellent.I learned & enjoyed at the same time.

If the agent is working for a RE broker I would be writing that broker..