You are the one standing in-between them and your bank account.If you really wanted to, you could organize, petition, and work through your state and local legislative process to change your property tax laws...with the realization that this is a very low value activity if you ever eventually succeed.  

Although NAR still has a tight grip on things, I see a company/companies lobbying to change legislation and remove brokerages completely out of the picture2) Title companies will go out of business (5-10 years)The whole cryptocurrency fiasco is the biggest bubble waiting to happen.

There are plenty of loans you can get for SFDs that are more commercial and will not be treated the same as a residential loan that must adhere to Dodd Frank and other legislation.

We hope that legislation can go even further to help ADUs start to gain traction in California.

California Apartment Association “ CAA” calls for action : a Bill to repeal the "Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act" (Costa-hawkins Rental Housing Act) has been scheduled for the first hearing in the state legislature, to repeal a landmark legislation to protect owners from radical rent controls.

I still think you will be well served to try the DIY route yourself for a bit, but bear in mind that legislation changes, and if you managed the property, you take on all the risks associated with it.

California Legislative AlertNow Rent control is being expanded and could affect Condominiums, Single Family Houses, newere buildings in each city!

Left and right economists area 95% in agreement that it leads to 1. less housing as people take their rentals off market 2. ultimately less affordability 3. messed up tax and entitlement systemThey're voting on it this week in california to expand rent control to condos, single family houses, and new builds (which were banned before) Costa hawkins AB 1905 tell your local assembly member to vote no...for California Assembly info go to this california .gov sitehttp://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/ CALL BEFORE JAN 9Call before this Tuesday the 9th because they're voting on this HUGE impactful Rent control legislation for all cities in California.This is actually bigger and more impactful to landlords and property owners than the Trump tax reform if you live in California.This is by Buildium https://www.buildium.com/blog/ab-1506-threatens-re...

It is important note that the legislative process really was only the beginning here.

I currently own a house in East Nashville that cash flows well as a STRP, but Davidson county just passed legislation to phase out all residentially zoned, non-owner occupied STRPs.