So when you say they are behind on their taxes do you mean there is an outstanding tax lien certificate.

Your service will be so good that HE might start calling YOU for deals for fear that your outstanding service had been discovered by another reliable buyer.

They can fight amongst themselves over it.Once up, I just re-write a new lease for the remaining tenant.

If they choose to fight you on whether or not they need to do it/finance it and you don't actually have in the lease that they are expected to take care of such things, you're going to be eating the bill.That being said, I would never consider letting my tenant's doing anything greater then minimum repairs.

As a cellular minority (android), I MUST protest :) No, seriously Joshua Dorkin instead of fighting the android development drama, maybe consider using a Linux developer to put BP on ubuntu OS.

How do I go about it, what are the "golden tickets" for fighting this in court?

The good news is that every time you get that "wow I have no clue what any of these words mean, and there is 10,000,000 of them on this page" feeling and fight you your way through it, you're becoming smarter and one step closer to being a master investor:)I think probably the best step to take is to network with other, local investors in person.

(for the question assume Mayor Barret's attempts to fight the state law fail).

If it's obvious, I don't imagine anyone would fight that in court.

Now, since fighting with the board is usually a losing situation (even if you win) you might consider selling the condo or replacing tenants.