To the businesses that pay employees and hit every bodies pay check, to the real estate owners and jack up property taxes, to bank accounts and brokerage accounts and increase tax on gains.

First, they lobbied state regulatory agencies to created standardized fill in the blanks purchase contracts, and successfully lobbied to have those agencies determine that licensed real estate agents could fill in those blanks for a buyer and not be determined to be practicing law.  

Had a tenant in one of my rental condos that couldn't get along with any body in the complex.  

The issue at hand - if you don't have release prices established up front for each property and during that 5-year period you want a partial release because you want to sell less than all of the properties - a lender will require new appraisals on all the remaining properties as there's usually an LTV max covenant plus, I think, there's a regulatory requirement for the lender (talking a traditional lender, not private, and I'm not an attorney or regulatory expert, thus the "I think").  

We are indeed living in strange times.In United States constitutional law, a regulatory taking is a situation in which a government regulation limits the uses of private property to such a degree that the regulation effectively deprives the property owners of economically reasonable use or value of their property to such an extent that it deprives them of utility or value of that property, even though the regulation does not formally divest them of title to it.

Very difficult to find attorneys that will take on a case challenging an HOA, primarily because most states have no governing body with jurisdiction over them.

I dont see self storage as real estate per se its a business. that just happens to run out of a real estate location you own and operate not different than buying your own body shop or fitness center and owning the building..

Do not put the first warm body.

Problem in California is labor is a killer, both from a financial and a regulatory point of view.

All non regulatory rules are voided in a lease.