While you may ultimately be wrong and be forced to apologize, you really lose very little or if your tenant, especially one in this situation, actually does think you as her landlord are crazy-suspicious and should be medicated for paranoia.This technique is very much how mid-level drug dealers keep their street-level people honest in the absence of trust in their basic business relationship, and it works WONDERFULLY with trashy people skating on the edge of legality.

If your local governmental body has records that the animal caused human harm, then you may have an argument.IMO, the big issue with ESAs is that the concept is largely abused.  

In a few states, any licensed dealer can apply for a "lost title", and many many higher dollar single section homes magically appear "from out of nowhere" in those states, usually because of unpaid taxes in some other state.BP is a valuable resource, but it has its frustrations.

However, if you're acting as a "dealer" (if you flip houses) and you file your gains on your schedule C you will want to set up your 1031 business in LLC's so as not to confuse a $75,000 a year IRS auditor.For me personally, I would 1031 everything and never touch the money. 

These all effect human organizations, it's just more prevalent in the construction industry.

Brandon Turner invests with the goal of giving away $1 Billion (yes, with a "B") to help fight human trafficking.

I held a dealers licence and bought and sold over 30 vehicles in the past 4 years.

-Finally- remember that they are human beings and we are all struggling in some way right now.

Unfortunately, the Accountants/Bookkeepers are mere humans, and very occasionally a mistake is made when they are handling perhaps many hundreds of payments and invoices monthly across multiple Client accounts.

Aside from his apparent superhuman ability to manage huge numbers of properties on almost no time, by doing everything yourself you can wring out every single penny from each property.Taz,Absolutely no super-human ability is required to manage rental properties.