Anyway, we immediately took action, got a plumber there to fix the issue, and called in a water extraction company.  

Extraction and Anadarko are the two companies that have those permits.

That gives the lender, the agency doing the first time home buyer program, and potentially the seller a reason to extract penalties."

I'd also suggest to setup a Chrome extension, the one I used is called "Email Extract", as you're browsing through Facebook Wholesale groups, many of them like to add their email address.

A mature couple of Indian extraction have applied for one of my units.

If you build a "practice" there's far less sustainable value but you extract value (read: cash) much, much, MUCH easier than if you're building a business.  

You extract $50k cash and use it to buy a rental with it. 2/3 of the new loan will still be personal interest for your residence, and 1/3 will be business interest for the rental. 1/3 of your interest is deductible against the rental, and 2/3 of the interest goes on the personal deductions Schedule A - where it is deductible but still may be useless under the new tax law (if your total deductions are below the new standard deduction which doubled compared to the old law.)Variation.

With QuickBooks, since I'm able to extract information by customer, vendor, or account code, I no longer file invoices and bills by customer or vendor file, I file them by check number.

Let your lawyer guide you.Your lawyer should be able to initiate the process to extract him from the property.

I really want to avoid that if possible but at the same time I don't want a lawyer who is just extracting unnecessary fees from me.