Also, everyone here will aways say to contact a lawyer about legal situations, so do that if you feel it's necessary, but I'd suggest brushing up on the landlord-tenant laws so you have a better idea of where you are in the process.

Once that gets back to the office, the city attorney gets it, and the case quietly gets brushed under the rug. 

There is a wire brush attachment for a snake, like a chimney sweep brush but smaller, a power snake should be able to clean out the drain, if it's tree roots, there is a cutter that can be attached.

Brush up on weather vs. whether usage, maybe your phone is doing an autocorrect.

We tested a section filling in the holes, sanding, and painting the slats with kilz (using a brush).

Brushing teeth?

Instead of listing the model number, use the name of the product like: hugger 52" brushed nickel ceiling fan.And make notes that say: all finishes brushed nickel when possible.

That 25% pay bump from moving to the Bay Area might get them to the $1.125m price point (it's not really linear like that, but good enough for our purposes), but it's a coin toss if they will accept $1.125m as their buying power, or rent a really nice house from a landlord that doesn't calculate DTI ("gross income > 3x rent" gets you a LOT farther than DTI would get you, if you have a zillion dollars in student loan debt).That's a broad brush and there are a lot of doctors NOT described by that, to be certain.

This can be as simple as fully clearing a lot; but a good wildfire mitigation company could save you money by selectively thinning out the thicker brush and understory, and leaving a lesser but safer amount of foliage behind for aesthetics' sake.   

Paint brush and paint.