Maybe they do now...but at their next meeting, they may decide to start doing things like secondary tenant screenings, interviewing your tenants before approving them as residents, or they could ban leasing altogether (this is not uncommon) or require a year or two of owner occupancy before you are allowed to lease your unit (this is very common). 3.

Murphy exemption affects COVID eviction bans, the answer is no.

Travel bans are unconstitutional.

If your state moratorium on evictions has been lifted, that just means that owners of "non-covered” properties can return to normal and file evictions.Evictions on "covered" properties are still banned by federal law.See: https://evict.com/?

The Chinese mentality of " mei ban fa " comes to mind.

All of the press and briefings by the mayor in Richmond up until June 15, 2020 seemed to clearly state that Richmond was not hearing eviction cases until June 29 after the State Supreme Court extended the eviction hearing ban.

In Feb 2020, however, this practice was banned, and landlords needed to pay. 

Or some shade of grey of it, if these national eviction ban efforts move forward.

Section 8 discrimination is being banned in more places, so check your target markets to see if you can opt out.Section 8 adds its own set of rules that come with the guaranteed payments. 

Worst case, it gets outlawed in a town AFTER you’ve bought a place there & now you have to sell at a HUGE loss bc there’s no buyer demand once STR use is banned!