Financial regulation of course has an impact but investors always find ways around that. 

I am a new investor and have been looking for my first SFR or duplex in the Portland area but I'm deterred by this new regulation.

Buying in a heavily regulated area like this can help your property value and attract better tenants...or it can devalue your property and scare away tenants.Personally, I like to err on the side of freedom and try to avoid heavily regulated markets.

There should be Real Estate Division in Georgia or another authority to regulate property managers - google and call them first.

In that same market, your STR cap rate may be 12%, but 4% of which goes to management reducing your net to a similar level as for LTR.Now add the risk of regulation changes and the burden of furnishing and you will quickly see it's not worth it.

Worth looking into.I was planning on doing STR in Atlanta last year, but regulation kinda scared me away.

The first step is to look into local zoning regulations to determine what can and cannot be built on your site.

Title companies here don't charge you a fee to run title IF they have a contract in hand...otherwise they generally do charge a fee due to state insurance regulations.  

This is why the free and low cost credit sites will use VantageScore 3.0 which is much cheaper from a business perspective.There is a misconception that credit scores are universal, or regulated, or have rules in some way.

A loan modification is a new extension of credit and is subject to comply with any new regulations at the time new credit is extended.