They claim these are cosmetic changes!

As cliche as it sounds, you claim you're a modest person so why not be yourself?

She declined, hurt his feelings and had her regular AC guy go out only find out that her tenant didn't have half of the AC vents open in the house.)TLDR; let your tenant be a tenant and let your contractors be contractors.

 You are going to find many situations on where claimed numbers are not how they truly are is once you start peeling back the cover of economic and physical occupancy current standings.

I've certainly done my own transactions and recorded my own deeds but it's not something I would do as a regular procedure In MD the law require an attorney creates deeds. 

;) I do quite a bit of short sale work and I regularly have cash deals available.

Do they structure in a way where it mirrors the regular 30-year fixed rate except the term to pay off the loan in full is more immediate, e.g. 5-8 years.

The environmental controls are very tight and underground storage tank (UST) operators are held to strict standards for regular inspections and monitoring. 

For some reason I assumed it would only be slightly different than regular residential. 

My guess with all the back and forth something was missed and you could claim there is no contract.