some people say to leverage your money most as possible but other people argue it’s to risky, I get they can be both right in some cases but, what would be a good strategy for just starting out?

I would probably give him a cure or quit, and if he tries to argue, remind him that a 100% chance of an eviction action on his record + some chance of getting in trouble under state law (Florida has a law against service animal fraud) is gonna hurt way more than a 0% chance of you catching a FHA case. 

And even then, they're "market rate" apartments but I would argue what they're asking is really pushing what "market rate" means to most people in the areas they're building/redeveloping.

On the other hand, you can argue the value of the house (improvements).

They see it’s an apartment association lease and that is important because they’ve say over hundreds of evictions and know the ins and outs of what that particular holds and what can’t be argued .

So ABC Home Buyers is going to be better than something like ABC Homes?

They have argued with us for days now and won't pay.

But the flip side is what the appreciation has been.I'll let the rest of BP argue the merits of that either way.

Albeit, you could argue with the company that the rep did a bait and switch with you.

One might argue that you could get away without builder’s risk, but that’s another thread.