Both houses are technically identical, and the allowance is there.

What I meant was assuming tenants are comparing more than one place, this is what they find. 2 identical properties.

 I thought I would reopen this since I have an almost identical situation.1.  

Don't assume that all auction companies operate identically.

They look nearly identical, please let me know which one you went with, and why?

I own 2 identical houses, side by side, and there are identical houses on either side of these 2.  

This is not "non-conforming" - I know because I just closed on a property that is IDENTICAL to the OPs with a conventional loan.

Like a person named Brian Darisay (https://www.linkedin.com/in/briandarisay) who happens to have almost the identical bio.At least the damage is less than $1k but damn it stings, especially when you don't have a lot of money and now I likely will need to back out of the deal. 

If you were able to procure financing that allowed you to buy 10 identical homes to the hypothetical one described in this scenario, each with just $10,000 on the table, you would have ultimately spent the same $100,000 described in scenario #1 at the end of the year.  

Tenants having similar complaints to owners- EVERY client that has come over has had identical or extremely similar issues.