@Susan Bearce a living trust that sounds like  the lawyer could be an estate lawyer, when someone passes away is in charge of the estate and its affair.

In this case this whole sorted affair if it had not dragged on for over a year in my case and 18 months for Pruner and others would probably had a better outcome.

A CEO of a company can make a major decision based on his wife having an affair with the pool boy, which affects YOUR hard earned money invested in that company.That's great that YOU can beat the market (~7% return)... but 93% of stock brokers who do it for a living cannot.After fees, taxes, inflation, and human emotion, the return on a mutual fund/S&P 500 index fund is 0%.

My PM's value is in the money she SAVES me when something goes wrong, not just in managing my affairs.

You must have extensive first hand knowledge of China's current state of affairs, uninfluenced of course by our media's collectively poor job of telling us truth.

A CEO of a company can make a major decision based on his wife having an affair with the pool boy, which affects YOUR hard earned money invested in that company.That's great that YOU can beat the market (~7% return)... but 93% of stock brokers who do it for a living cannot.After fees, taxes, inflation, and human emotion, the return on a mutual fund/S&P 500 index fund is 0%.

Namely their inane policies..... from wildlands handling, water infrastructure mismanagement, gas appliance bans, love affair with electric cars, and others.

I've looked at that booklet many time for other issues, but never paid any attention to the definition of tenant versus guest.Cory:  The link above from the Dept. of Consumer Affairs has some interesting info.  

This is spreading like wildfire in California  here's in Pasadena http://www.pasadenanow.com/main/new-pasadena-tenants-union-deliberates-over-direction/http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/social-affairs/20161006/these-south-pasadena-tenants-want-rent-control-after-their-rents-jump-600

Please give opinions to the ramifications of doing this and if it's a bad idea - due to our US societies love affair with the military I'm afraid this can backfire on me - if he wasn't in the military I wouldn't have second thoughts.