How can a town that willful ignores it's own law expect to keep the trust of its citizens and business?

If the deal makes sense and you want it then ignore the agent's behavior and get your deal done.

The problem with it is that if I saw it in my update review every day, after a few days I would ignore it on sight alone and "filter" if before forwarding to my client.

Do not ignore it.2) I seriously doubt a seller is going to take a $100k hair cut off asking price.

You have been spinning your wheels due to the fact that you have ignored the proper process for collecting rent owed.

I feel so ignorant about everything we still need to learn!

If you were to ignore my advice and deed the 4-plexes to a S-corp, the one owned by you and the two jointly would all be deeded to the corp, and thus the corp would be the seller and the buyer so the 1031 sticks. 

If you are not happy with my comments you are more than welcome to ignore them.

If a HELOC was never an option anyway, are you sure that HML will ignore your DTI ratio?...

I'm not saying you should ignore the wellbeing of good tenants - we're all human, I hope!