English eat Squab (pigeon), and I love sushi.During the late 70s and 80s there was a big cultural adjustment for recent immigrants in certain part of the county I grew up in (Orange County) and inappropriate, over the top jokes about missing dogs were rampant.Maybe your lease clause should be modified to read: "...no dogs as pets or livestock".  

Your downstairs peoples' actions are harassing and wildly inappropriate, even if upstairs was noisy.  

And of course it's tough to get paid when the tenant has little to no money to pay with.One way is for the landlord to keep bill in landlord's name and to bill tenant for utility usage.  

Try to spread water usage throughout the week.

I can easily gauge the value based on its current usage, however anyone that buys is likely going to knock it all down and build condos.

go down to City Hall and find the Department that is responsible for determining usage.

For instance, one of my tenants moved his girlfriend in, and since his lease states that only one person is to be occupying the apartment I can demand extra $$ to cover the increased utility usage...Kelly

Best long term solution is to specify in the lease that there is to be no water usage.....ever.

I knew that the wear and tear on the property, and water usage (which I pay for) would be lower with only one or two people rather than 6.

This girl is giving us agents a bad name.