While I'm not familiar with the state of Georgia's laws, the city of Atlanta itself is extremely LQBTQ-friendly, so I don't know whether the state's laws will be a deal breaker (though I could definitely see Amazon using its power to impact legislation).

Congress is working on new legislation around the 'retail', non-accredited investor and we expect to know more about that, and perhaps have it enacted by early 2015.Eric Barnes , there are many people who are interested!

Is it the hotel lobby pushing for the STR strangling legislation in CO?

There are more risks involved (considering new legislation can be passed that restricts rents even further).

For those that don't know Arizona is one of the few states that have legislation in place prohibiting cities from banning and regulating STR's, however, based on the above we can see that this is under attack and will most likely be overturned at some point. 

Leases need to be 30 days or longer to comply with new short-term rental legislation that was just finalized for r7.5 and r10.

@Diamon Higgins O-26-19 is the legislation.

The more I look at it building multi-family buildings will likely be the best choice in the long term, whether for selling it down the road or just avoiding any kind of legislation changes

Hostile policies towards development just push people to other cities to do their building.Here are some links about the harm rent control does:Beacon Economics research study on rent control - https://caanet.org/app/uploads/2016/02/Jan2016_Ren...Perspective on helping low income afford housing - http://www.lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3345Legislative Analysis suggesting housing construction rather than rent control - https://caanet.org/legislative-analysts-office-enc...

They deliver water to the property and bill the property owner, it is really none of their business if you sub-meter internally.Now, they may say you are "reselling" the utility and make a fuss ... where utilities are legislated monopolies resale is frequently prohibited/restricted.