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Just for an update. Last night, my friend was upstairs, and I had fed Rosco, and taken him out for a walk. When we came back in, I wanted to give Rosco some "free" time downstairs with his leash attatched.
I was very surprised, he wasn't as upset and didn't react as horrible as he did earlier. He made a huge improvement. Although my friend was upstairs, not in the vicinity of my dog, it still was huge that he was able to play with me downstairs, and not go wild. Sure, there was still some eye balling on my dogs part going on, and he was still not sure who my friend was, and what he was doing in my home, but he was more calm, and that gives me great hope.
But really, as well as that went. The big issue here, is just with all people in general, not with my friend.
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You stated the past is in the past, that you are going to do right by your dog now and hence you want us to focus on the now and not the past. But here you go again with the same pattern we have seen through previous threads. You post about a problem, you get advice, you don't act on the advice, then you post that things are better mainly because of one little thing your dog did that wasn't aggressive. That's great that your dog was able to handle playing with you on one floor while a stranger was on another floor. If this is an accomplishment in your eyes you need to raise the bar a little higher. Granted it will take a lot of time and baby steps to get your dog there. But I wouldn't be proud that my dog could handle being on one floor of a home with a person on another. I'd be greatly disappointed.
I hope that you are trying to focus on the positive and that you won't fall back to your complete pattern in the past as seeing one insignificant improvement as a sign that things are well and your dog doesn't need the help of a professional.