Alternatively, once the existing tenant is out, you can lease at market rate.The real challenge of "non-landlord friendly" areas in the form of: your ability to adjust their rent from one lease term to the next, rent control issues that would limit your ability to ever push rent increases over time, any mandates on required renewal options for existing tenants (typically come with rent control measures) and the ease and speed with which evictions are processed. 

We've had over a year+ of people being unemployed due to mandated shutdowns, deadbeat tenants not paying rent because of eviction moratoriums, and you are 100% shielded from this and still don't know if it's a good deal?

Many citys / states will keep the install records, so you should be able to go to the records department of the city, county or state and see who set it up and to what plan (manufacture, new engineering or state mandated) they followed. 

The instructor says that it will satisfy CA state mandated 135 hrs RE education and all other pre-requisite requirements to qualify for RE licensing exam.

It's a good idea to get them involved early.Account ClosedWhere I find e-mail addresses and phone numbers is from a CA probate court-mandated form called Duties and Liabilities. 

Better yet, let's mandate that all work done on Fannie or Freddie REOs be done by union labor and have at least one full time OSHA officer on site.

That's one reason why LA has the Soft Story Mandate and some cities give incentives/rebates for retrofitting the connections between the floor joists and the concrete foundation.A simple retrofit could greatly increase the odds and help protect home owners / real-estate investors to preserve most of their investment versus having a greatly damaged structure that is too expensive to repair.

China is moving quickly from denial towards a mandate for change, Russia’s future has not looked this bleak since the late 1990s.

Any thoughts on the state stepping in and stopping this like they did with the section 8 mandate?

This filing is a legal mandate by the U.S.