He wanted to make renovations, depending on the extent, was told he might lose the grandfathering.

USD is definitely losing ground in the value dept to bitcoin.

The website 51west.properties also scores low on scam advisor ("owner is using a service to hide their identity, high number of suspicious websites on the server, registrar has a high % of spammers and fraud sites, website is (very) young, website appears to be hosted by a company with a bad reputation", all according to https://www.scamadviser.com/check-website/51west.properties...)Trust your instincts. 

Scour every home site available and even sites that are not know for home sales, but sales in general - you may be surprised.

Otherwise, you could also provide prevention recommendations somewhere on the lease that includes what you've mentioned above.Assuming you don't have a lawyer to help with your rental agreement you can find some sample clauses on a site such as Law Insider.

Great to have you on the site. 

Anyway, as long as this is money you can afford to lose good luck.

Site Civil and land use planning....I've been in the conversations for major clients that have both pursued an eminent domain against adjacent owners and have had takings due to eminent domain.

You would want to start with searching on YouTube for: "Clayton Morris Loses $7 Million Lawsuit" He didn't realize that @James Wise had his ish together and got a big wake up call.

I'm curious if this discrepancy is typical of other regions as well.How accurate is the data on this site?