Around 2 years ago the city council passed some anti STR regulations that mostly could only be overcome by living on the property. 

The doors close lock properly, but occasionally people get buzzed in or follow a tenant in, despite the fact we constantly send out reminder letters about building security and best practices.We have security cameras and are actively involved in coordinating withe police and city council members.Still every time something happens this one tenant acts like its my fault and then leaves a bunch of messages about what horrible person I am and how badly I manage the place, etc,etc.

My question is where are investor friendly areas in Metro Detroit and how/where do I look to find out if it is a good area to rent out a house when it comes to dealing with the city council.

I had to deal with disability council accomodation, renter advocacy, news, everything, about how I could kick the poor people out after 39 years. 

I developed a proposal, presented it to the Mayor of Schenectady; they had to go through city council to approve this off market sale because it was taken outside of their Land Bank Process.

The current Minneapolis city council is very anti landlord.

You might need to escalate to the city council or mayor, or get an attorney involved.

One piece of caution about a proposed (but I believe a majority of city council support it) change specific to the city of Portland is around deconstruction.

., 26th Floor Council Chambers on Wednesday, November 13th at 4:00.

Curious to see how this actually works out in reality. https://www.wbaltv.com/article/county-council-passes-home-act-while-residents-still-wait-for-housing-vouchers/29700868#