., general maint (road, common space, etc) and management costs. 

Rent Control is a two sided issue.

I believe the neighbor has some beef with the city, and is trying to use this issue to create a problem for the city, my friend is just the unlucky guy who gets to be collateral damage.The small town utility department doesn't have record drawings of the laterals, and they are not being too helpful. 

Depending on the property a quick cosmetic rehab will run 2 to 3 months with contractor scheduling  tight , to 1 year if they run into unforseen issues . 

They will state their plan for the secured debt which for the most part will be one of three options, 1) Reaffirm (rare) or, 2) surrender (Common for cars, not common for homes unless there is no equity) or, 3) "Pay and retain pursuant to contract (Which means i want it but i'm not reaffirming it).  

I spoke directly with Drew Sygit - the founder of LogicalPM and we spent a good portion of 60-90 minutes chatting about the current portfolio, the issues I've faced, and how his company plans to solve it. 

I provide my clients only the number of stamped plans they need (as dictated by the town issuing the building permit) to get one building permit.

I worked with people here in Los Angeles that buy and refurbish properties for Tennent In Common or TIC sales and exit strategy.

Our firm actually does no small amount of work with private equity firms that buy NH based businesses... and then don't want to deal with the NH tax issues and farm it out. 

My condo association is small and we do allow short term rentals so that is not an issue.