Hugh gives a plausible explanation of an attempt to manipulate search engine results - though there would diminished benefit of trying this on an English, North American site from China or North Korea ... someone who can read the posts, could probably help identify their source (some one who sees the source IP addresses could also tell)I would think Cloudfare should be running intrusion/DoS detection on its perimeter and be blocking the IP source networks  - at least temporarily.

(in fact you'll soon, likely see distributors in your neck of the woods)The municipality would have to file a lawsuit in a completely different state...Do you know how hard it would be tosub poena phone records..About a year ago..Locally... a detective kept calling our front office... and asking about customers... of course we said we don't know... and the truth is... we don't have a database that correlates number on the bandit sign with person...

It might be a little detective work but I hope its worth it.

Reading through that entire page also informed me of the methods used to detect such underground utilities.

we used Lexus in our lending business.. mainly for fraud detection.. although at least for the product we had .you needed a brick and motor and you needed to be a licensed lender.. and I think licensed PI's can get it as well.It did not seem you could just come in off the street and get the subscription. at least the product we had.

I'm starting to detect a theme here, so you must be putting me on the right track.thanks again , any other advice would be appreciated. 

However, I go through the house myself and rely on my 25+ years of doing thisDoing an inspection on a HUD if it is even possible can cost $1000+:-$150 fee to the field service manager to de winterize-Buyer pays all connection fees and back utility fee if applicable-$300-400 for the inspectionKeep in mind with many properties, the FSM Property Condition Report detected a possible leak or electrical issue, so no utility turnons can be done. 

I have a 40 yeaar old house with copper pipes, and a crawl space, in the last six months Ive had 2 leaks spring up in long runs of the copper.  I've asked the local home depot plumber about it and he says its due to e...

Yes - preferable to get a detective level or above as your tenant

They even drilled wholes in every wall and used some kind of sniffer to try and detect latent oders.