The lesson I learned is that fighting the county on your own is rarely worth it.

I hired a lawyer to fight the insurance company which claimed only a few shingles needed to be replaced.Finally, after almost a year the lawyers were able to get the insurance to an arbitration where everyone meets on site at the house to inspect it and agree upon an amount the insurance would pay.I had already found a roofer and scheduled him in email form to start work 2 days after the arbitration date.

The snowball grows.Not using equity keeps us more honest and fighting for better deals. 

They can back out and it would be a fight to get made whole.  

It all depends if the tenants will drag out their stay by putting up a fight.

I agree it’s not worth fighting about but I’d take it right out of the deposit unless there is good tangible proof of this in writing .

We close at the end of October on the property I'm selling.Just got off the phone with my accountant, he is digging his heels in on this and saying everyone fights him on this and he has become an expert on this, because he went through this in December.

Curious which firms are willing to fight for the business right now.

Trying to get 20 or 30 % out of some quick flip deal where you don't add value you'll be fighting to find such prey, peers, industry professionals and ultimately the community will be critical of how you deal, so will attorneys and judges.

I have seen the water meter removed if a bill is too far past due,,the question I have is can they find the meter and verify its accuracy.I had something somewhat similiar happen, but the city checked the meter,,in this case there might not be anyway to do that,,I would ask them to look at the history of the address,,that the usage they are saying is WAY out of line.One other thing that I discovered during my fight on a water bill, people steal water, because apparently in the manufacturing of some dope they use a lot of water,,so the city watches for crazy water usage, so its better for them to steal it from a neighbor.