She may get all lawyerly and say I can’t prove those are her pets, or claim they are service animals or whatever.

2) Does the animal perform a task, provide assistance, or alleviate a symptom of the disability?

They're their own animal. 

He showed me a spot above the garage door where he proudly told me it took him 3 coats of paint to cover the water stains.It turns out this whole community has a builder defect that involves the fascia and the sealing of the "envelope" - still not sure what that means but basically water has encroached in between the masonry and the concrete block and staining is noticeable over the overhead garage door and only on that wall.

SOCAL is another animal

Put in a prefinished oak handrail or buy one and put a few coats of polyurethane on it.

Sorry for the rant, but I feel that all the sugar coating and *** kissing that goes on in these circles someone needs to share the other side of the story.

They completed the work so fast, with a couple of walls having three coats because they "weren't happy how it looked", that I had them repaint the foyer, living room and do outside trim that I really hadn't planned on doing.

Yes, do it now because doing it later will coat your nice clean bedroom with wet cement dust.

We are considering to put on a spray foam flat roof covered with a silicone coating.