The only thing you really care about: is it leaking!

So the underwriter for the buyers loan does not want to approve to move forward to loan docs (conventional loan) unless items 1&2 are performed.

If you're not a legal eagle, you should spend an hour with an attorney to help you figure what docs you need to do what you want to do.

You can move out after 12 months that you sign (occupancy affidavit for 12 months at time of doc signing).Your entitlement slowly comes back after use, but if you want to use the full entitlement you have to payoff your current loan by refinancing or selling to free up the "full," entitlement again.

Tenant called and said she had a gas leak.

It could have been a bank in second position like you said, but the way it worked seemed strange...When the lender's maximum bid was the judgment amount the bank's agent would say something along the lines of "the plaintiff bids $100, up to $x" (loan balance) so the investors would know how high the bank would go and if no one was willing to bid over that amount the bank bought it for only $100 to minimize the doc stamps.But when they were willing to bid over the balance the agent would say "the plaintiff bids $100, up to an undisclosed amount in excess of the judgement."

One of the things they always do is place ducts inside the conditioned space to reduce both the loss through heat transfer and the loss through air leaks into the unconditioned space.

I suggest you see your broker's attorney on the matter as well as the broker.But I am wondering what documents a broker signs at closing other than in-house docs between the closing agent and the broker, unless he meant the contract.

If its an average tank and its not leaking you're looking at around $2000.

@Chris Hensley if you are comfortable with spreadsheets, have you considered Google Docs where you can both have access to the spreadsheets from anywhere you have internet access?