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. 

Rent Control is a two sided issue.

If the truth was told and he was just another guru struggling to rise above the “noise” of the competition, he would probably be traveling under the legal radar.

Pursue legal action against the county and risk future cooperation from them?

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. 

No significant (legal) ways to deduct against your w2 income here sadly. 

If you rent out a property in Oakland, you can't legally discriminate against someone with a criminal background, except a sex offender - there's a bit more protection if you're house hacking and live on the property.

I have no issue with cold calling either.

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. 

The ADU is being promoted heavily these days because it helped government on housing (while they're the one that's causing housing shortage issue at beginning) and at the tail end, they would raise the tax for ADU.So.. if you build ADU, is the house gonna sell more or not ?