I want to be respectful of peoples time but im not sure I have a clear enough understanding of my options to justify sitting down with someone.

What I would do is reach out to them again respectfully and let them know they are in violation of their lease terms (over the phone and certified mail).

If you're respectful about it and take no for an answer - totally fine.

That is how you get respect in middle America.

Little things we have noticed:1) use good people throughout...people seem to know each other and seem to want to do good work for people they respect and keep their deadlines2) respecting time--we have asked a few people if they could give us an estimate and offered to pay for their time to do so.

Monthly $545 cap, $545 repairs, $272.5 (10/10/5 percent, respectively) - end of one year $16,350.  

That, I'm learning as I go.)I respectfully disagree. 

The last thing I want to do is drive them away.She is asking respectfully, which I appreciate, but I just want to know what my rights are in this specific instance.

That would allow you to put down just 3.5% or 5% of the purchase price, respectively.

No-one should actually do this because it is dangerous and could kill them or the poor lineman trying to restore power if they didn't understand the inherent dangers involved.If you pulled your meter, shut off all of your circuit breakers, installed a 240v 30a plug to a double pole breaker and the neutral bus (instead of ground), then you could use a 110V generator with two extension cords to your new outlet (cords sharing neutral and having their respective hots in the 240v plug) in order to get 110v to both buses in your panel.