My only concern with that device would be if the tenant was smart enough to fiddle with it and claim they used less energy.

I would rather spend my mental energy elsewhere rather than on a creepy neighbor lol. 

Moreover, it turns out our drain connects to the main sewer line six houses away, on another street, at the end of the block.The only solution provided by Citizens Energy is to reroute our connection to a lateral drain across the street.

Seems like we should bite the bullet and replace it as the devil is in the details.

When I have used hard money, I have focused my energy on getting the project done as quickly as possible so it qualified for traditional financing.

If you're trying to fund itself yourself for smaller commercial real estate, that's your choice but I'd take ags, minerals, energy, infra over that anyday of the week.

Who’s going to trade you own gun and one bullet for a pound of gold?

Couldn't these things be discussed maybe with a bulleted list or something during the discussion to keep your place with the things you want?

Seems completely reasonable to me and if someone isn’t able to do that then they’re either a scammer, not a serious buyer or seller, or just a pain to work with so I dodged a bullet either way.

Maybe we dodged a bullet.