hahahaI don't want government to do anything for me except national defense and immigration.

Because they will get defensive if they feel you are pressuring them.

The tenant gets defensive and says they didn't see a "no monkeys" clause in the lease and that you have no right to tell them what they can do in the property and that technically the monkeys "aren't pets" and sue you for wanting to enforce the lease.

I carry a weapon daily; many I know carry other, non-lethal forms of self defense; pepper spray, mace, etc.

Do investors become defensive and hunker down reducing aquisitions, because few deals pencil? 

From there he got super defense, threatened to pull the contracting team off of the project and a few days later he caved and I got to speak 1 on 1 with the contractor.

A conference call verifies.

Don’t tell them you know they are in foreclosure, they’ll get defensive.

(b) Reports to CongressThe Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and the Secretary of Agriculture shall each include in the annual report of such Secretary to the Congress a summary and evaluation of the data collected by such Secretary under subsection (a) of this section during the preceding year.Sec. 809. [42 U.S.C. 3609] Education and conciliation; conferences and consultations; reportsImmediately after April 11, 1968, the Secretary shall commence such educational and conciliatory activities as in his judgment will further the purposes of this subchapter.

You can get on a 3-way conference phone call with the seller and a representative of the loan servicing company and they should be willing to share the loan payoff amount.