Yea I'm seeing a whole lot of move out stuff. It's his house, they just were tagalogs with him after he moved out the first time. The whole idea of moving out again and cutting his losses is a possibility I could throw his way, but I don't think he'd be up for that.
His mother does seem pretty panicky even to me. If it's a manipulative thing it's something that became habit. Years ago she asked me to do a windows update on her computer and she freaked out a little bit when it wouldn't shut down to restart right away because it was finishing the update during shutdown, she thought I broke it.
I'm kinda hoping the internet being switched over (in whatever way that works out) might give him more footing to be taken seriously. Right now he can't really do much if he wanted to, the internet is signed for by his sister, so I don't think the family thinks he could lock anyone out if he wanted to, and he can't really drop the house since he needs to live somewhere, and he got a really good deal on the house with amazing timing. Right after he bought the place housing prices around here skyrocketed.
Him having the internet under his name and it being properly set up so that only he can open a ticket seems like it would give him a stable place to put his foot down at when necessary. He could then lock up the router in his room. Even if he can't lock up the router, and his niece still decides to be an ass and reset the router when he's not there at least it won't be happening while he's working, and since he's there more often than not he can simply disable the wireless whenever his niece fucks with it.
P.S. The fratboys sound like it would be something fun to be a safe distance away from and watch.
Though I'm afraid it would drive my friend out of his mind too. Neither me or him are the frat type.