Since when can a governing body tell us what we can and cannot lawfully do?

A QCD would be appropriate for a ground lease on a commercial property,  water rights, littoral rights for access to a lake or body of nonnavigable water or where certain interests might be conveyed. 

Here is where confidence, body language and .. being straight to the point comes to play.

In other words are you in a profession that is physically or mentally hard on your body?

And in the past, for less credit worth tenants, we take two months rent deposit, but with rents in the $2,000+/month, we're take only one month, (NY state now limits it to one month) and if we quibble over every little hole in the wall, no body gets anything back, and we'll wind up in court every time.

No body wants to live next to a weird landlord.  

Based on a 2,000-calorie diet, the human body generates about 330 BTUs per hour of heat.

You need some body experienced to help you here.    

Friends had called police, etc and had taken care of the body and the animals... so far, so good.  

In which case the mouse may have just "passed on through"  by now,  is dead in the snow,  you'll find it's little desiccated body after the thaw.