Keeping rent artificially low while ignoring the natural law of supply and demand?

It can be just as bad for Joe Public to get duped by an unlicensed person practicing medicine or law as it is for him to lose his hard earned equity to an unlicensed person practicing real estate.

Some price a house artificially low and that's when you see $300K, $500K over asking. 

Housing values in the area are artificially inflated, making housing less affordable and raising property taxes.

If your next door neighbor has a terrible listing with terrible photos so it never gets booked, that will artificially drag the data down.

@Jeff Schneider I completely agree that an flipper tax is terrrrrible idea that would artificially shackle people to their homes and prevent blight from being excised.

With today's post-JOBS-Act environment there really is no excuse for stalled growth or artificial impediments to capital formation. 

What does the apartment actually look like...did they just walk out one morning with coffee cups on the kitchen table, clothes in the closet, multiple pairs of shoes, medicine cabinet looking normal, perhaps with toothbrushes still in place?

, wouldn't that be financially better for you than, attorney fees, a unit turn (from 1995), lost rents to vacancy and an unknown new renter, while you continue to collect the rent.Agree with it or not, your state government has decided this is some sort of medicine for some people vs Cheech and Chongs wild adventure.https://www.youtube.com/watch?

You don't negotiate, you don't subsidize the rent (you're not HUD), you unapologetically let them know that the rent has been artificially low while taxes and insurance have not been and that the new price reflects that of the market.