Is there a way to suppress the "john and mary are now colleagues" type messages that I see?

Suppress all the emotions!

You can't try to suppress a disruptive technology but eventually it will become too big.  

The Fed tried to stimulate lending by dropping rates, which should have increased the pool of buyers and therefore curtailed the growth of, or in fact reduced, rental rates relative to what they would have been immediately after the crash, and perhaps suppressed growth of rental rates since that point.The oddest thing about the graph comparing rent rates to home prices, though, is that rent rates continue at a steady clip almost completely irrespective of home prices, which leads me to believe that the types of consumers demanding homes are fundamentally different from the types of consumers demanding to rent.

You would be buying a big house, converting it to meet TAS2012 (Texas Accessibility Standards), including a fire suppression sprinkler system, and would hire staff to care for up to 16 residents 24/7.

I see it, but it’s because the inventory has been suppressed on purpose by big players . . . not foreclosing on properties.”

So not sure if that might suppress rental growth as these new properties come online in the SW area?

An older building might have been grandfathered in and now must be updated with new fire suppression and sprinkler systems, structure upgrades, greater parking requirement ratios that reduces building size, etc.  

We received 2 cost estimates for the rehab along with an initial code analysis to look at the possible elevator and fire suppression requirements.

Landlords serve as convenient foils for all of those in the business of suppressing rights.