Brian,I hate legalese, even when it is supposedly worded correctly no common layman can decipher it.If some act or legislation is aimed at restricting the private investor, then we should just be able to contact our Congressional and Senatorial representatives and in plain language say we are against any law that proposes to regulate the right to sell our possessions in any creative way we can.

At a minimum it saves you the time of deciphering cryptic emails. 

Have a property for sale that I owe 130k on the mortgage. Recieved (I'm guessing a verbal) offer that states:
Offer Price:$229,000
DN pay: $10,000
Assume existing loan.Yes I have already asked my realtor to ask wha...

However, since I still keep the file folders the main benefit for me is that in January I can print up the page on each property and hand them to my CPA, he never has a problem deciphering my handwriting thanks to the computer.One other thing I do that is a real time and heachache saver.

In my opinion, that $59 (I paid $79 for Ohio) has saved me countless extra hours trying to decipher what's all in the book.

This truly is in an A+ location. 95-100% occupancy.I obtained the 8825 form, but honestly am quite new at this and needed some help deciphering line-items.

Then it was a headache to decipher the heating bill of $1000 bc each tenants claims the other should pay the bulk bc they don't use it "much".

Search in competitive areas too to see if you can decipher a value premium for larger homes.

I'm reasonably proficient reading legal contracts, but have no particular experience deciphering notes.  

For one it seems to differ around the country, with various terminology and regulation, and two it takes me a long time to decipher the code into the basic information I need, like how many units can I have on the lot.My question, does anyone have any advice, or a cheat sheet, or website(s) or other information they use to quickly decipher the zoning codes?