I agree with everything you have said but I also think there are a lot of immigrants here legally, who do pay taxes, and who do work for themselves and their families to have a better life here in America and whatever is decided in Washington DC to protect the interests of the American people need to take into account all possible ramifications of their actions before ruling on legislature.

an llc is disqualified to be sold through freddie mac (or whatever the name is) and so there is a smaller pool of buyers, driving up your cost.bigger banks such as wells fargo or bank of america have policies that make it almost impossible for them to issue loans like this, but smaller community banks are able to do it.

There are many small islands in Central America (belize, panama, costa rica, etc) that fit the bill.

For Maryland, I expect you are correct and there is a substantial difference in cost/Btu between natural gas and electricity which will offset the increased efficiency of using a heat-pump .... kind of like how inordinately low petroleum prices offset the *real* cost of operating large, fuel-inefficient vehicles in North America. 

If you have a lot of equity sitting in your cash-flowing property in this part of America, in many ways it is quite like having a lot of money sitting in an underinsured bank account with zero interest.

I will be buying a primary home in the next few months and contacted two lenders: the first one is my bank (Bank of America) which offers a 3.6% rate on a conventional 30 year-fixed mortgage.

But feel it is going to negatively impact landlords by further scrutiny(and new regulations) from the government which will harm tenants on down the road.I'm not sure how it "harms tenants" any more than any other business harms customers by raising prices.Around 70% of rental property is managed by a professional property manager in Australia whereas it's more like 20% in America.

It is America's finest city so I guess the above is well known to investors already.

I had a house in Houston, the first house I owned in America, and termites had a field day on it. 

Unfortunately one can only guess how the housing market will respond to America's conflict with Iran.