In some Doc a mod author (and I can't find who) was annoyed that you could go into the mages guild and sell everything no qualms. So he or she included some factional hokey pokey to make it that you would need sufficient rank to take anything. It didn't bother me since after my first panicked character I really did not care to sell the novice apparatus, and even when I had sold it I RPed that with an eye on decor. Now I am stuck looking at dinner with a red hand over a pork chop and I think it's just another awkward RP deal. I have no idea how the rank and faction was done, and can't find any changes to things so far. Brings me back to Morrowind and 'stealing a sleep' in the mages guild. That was a bummer, really. Ever have that entire guild attack you for accidentally stealing?

This is no kind of problem, I could (possibly repeatedly) try a SetCellOwnership bat file, but I wish I knew how they modded it since that's not something I know well