Landlord shall have the option to terminate and cancel the Amended Lease ("Landlord's Termination Option") by delivering to Tenant written notice of Landlord's exercise of Landlord's Termination Option (the "Termination Notice").

Amend the lease to include that all dogs must be on a leash if outdoors.

(Adopted 1/07, Amended 1/12)Business competitors can and must coexist in a mutually beneficial environment without bashing each other. 

I don't think landlords in general are considered that negatively in society as a whole, but if I grew my business to your level, it's possible I would amend my opinion.

He also states that I should not amend the return because it will likely trigger an audit.Can anyone provide any insight?

You can also require the tenant to waive such notices or amend the way you can provide the notice.

[Repealed by amendment, 2014 c 188 s 2]Subd. 5.Waiver prohibited.

We make amends when we are in the wrong. 

If they wanted to amend the CCRs to explicitly ban short term rentals, they would have to put it to a vote and that costs money and time with no guarantee of success. 

In most states, the listing agent must provide written offers as proof of triggering the escalation clause.As for your appraisal, if it comes in lower than the accepted offer, your seller can either release you from the deal (if they don't want to accept the lower price), ask for an amendment to the offer for you to pay the difference to the original (high) offer, or they can accept the appraisal amount as your offer (your agent will need to write an amendment to the offer for this new amount).