its customary but not mandatory in WA for the seller to pay for the owners policy  as the seller is the one saying they have clean title you should buy my property.Lenders policy is paid for by the borrower and required by any lender I have ever heard of.When we are swapping around cheap mid west or south properties that have no debt its not uncommon to not buy title insurance if your familiar with the property.title insurance like has been said can be very tough to execute on when a claim comes up typical insurance companies sometimes you really have to fight ... but if you need it and your covered its very cheap insurance. 

I am not expecting a fight nor am I willing to get in one.

The classes were outstanding. as  I left, I couldn't believe I had spent so much time chasing after the small percentage of wholesale  properties out there when I could have spent time being able to deal with any kind of property a person could possibly want to sell.

I volunteered to do the research to find out what other landlords in other communities have done to fight/object to these increasing fees. 

His book, 80/20 Sales and Marketing is inexpensive but an outstanding value. 

The decedent had a reverse mortgage on it, and has an outstanding balance built up of $150,000 or so.

Is there a way I can fight this or is it worth going to another appraiser? 

Would another investor even entertain the notion of buying a SFR with bad tenants and just continuing the eviction fight?

Not something that many people would be fighting each other for.  

After a while when you hit outstanding loan balance thresholds ($500K, $1M, etc.) then the commercial lender you deal with may want to see your business plan.