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David the article I read made it seem that in 2014 the checkbook information was an optional piece of information to share, and that in 2015 it was going be mandated. 

I had more input regarding values for my properties although their underwriting mandated I be covered to certain minimum levels that I was comfortable with.  

The CA properties mandate it or it won't pass inspection and can't be sold.

If you own a property, you are not MANDATED to rent to anyone that comes through your door.

The judge may grant an extended time before they need to leave, but how can he legally mandate you to allow someone to live rent free.

But if they fail to adequately screen them and rent to one who robs or hurts a neighbor, they could be sued by the victim for negligence.No doubt many will see no option but to raise rents to indirectly exclude criminals from their rentals, which will just end up hurting everybody who rents housing — including innocent, law-abiding tenants.Obama’s new rule makes it easier for HUD to resettle urban minorities into affordable housing in the suburbs, as part of a controversial regulation it finalized last year — Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing — which threatens to cut off funding to local municipalities that refuse to lift zoning restrictions on low-income housing.The federal mandate — whose goal is racially balancing the nation, ZIP code by ZIP code — also threatens to import violent crime into the suburbs, while lowering property values and negatively impacting local schools.As kitchen table issues go, these are major developments.

You can agree or disagree with the game, but - if you chose not to play, you will struggle to win.In a fractional reserve system, which mandates inflation and velocity of money, cash is a depreciating asset, if you can call it asset.

It's your asset and you have complete control (unless local laws mandate other things).

I stopped buying student rentals there because the college made more dorms ( even though there were reports that they would still count on outside student housing) it hasn't ended up that way, enrollment went down, not up as predicted, and the college went from mandating Freshman to on campus but to Freshman and Sophomores must stay at in campus housing, took a big hit on a lot of student rentals in town.