My eviction lawyer told me that most of the city workers are very liberal aka pro-tenant so they're going to try to protect the tenant as much as possible. 

Albuquerque is cheap if your friend is coming from San Francisco, and it is expensive if they are coming from Liberal Kansas.I would be happy to talk to your friend and give them information and try to be of assistance. 

Obama is a socialistic left wing liberal nut job and should never have taken office.

Maybe in Texas it is okay, but I can definitely see some of the more liberal states ruling in the tenant's favor here.

Another big reason I am waiting is because I invest in apartments and there have been a lot of syndicators/operators that used bridge debt and very liberal underwriting standards.

West Virginia would be even better if we would just declare ourselves a sanctuary state for energy (coal, oil, natural gas) as opposed to letting liberals from CA and NY make laws which deliberately attack our extraction industries. 

Aside from constant threats to drastically alter the property tax structure, existing and expanding rent control, anti-landlord regulatory environment, anti-landlord/investor public sentiment, litigious tendencies, liberal judges, tents popping up everywhere, cardboard sign carrying panhandlers at virtually every roadway intersection, trash on roads pretty much everywhere you look, increasing crime, high cost to get pretty much anything done, and not the greatest economics (speaking from an investment point of view such as price-to-rent ratio, etc), probably my biggest reason is that I like to invest in places where people are moving TO, and avoid places where people are moving FROM. 

The county itself is liberal.   

It devalues properties and I can guarantee you that the 7% will continue to go down...have you ever seen “taxes” go lower in a liberal run state?  

SF Penninsula you have water on one side big mountains and large open spaces on the other.. you go to Texas or other mid west areas and you can sprawl literally forever.. so there is no scarcity of land .And or like Texas at least Texas in the past very very liberal zoning laws..