If you can explain how the politicians lose by letting this progress, they may change their mind.With that said, my hunch is that Biden won't care.  

I can't tell if these politicians are just ignorant, stupid, or evil but they are doing everything they can to hurt the mom-and-pop investors while coddling the bad actors.

I can't tell if these politicians are just ignorant, stupid, or evil but they are doing everything they can to hurt the mom-and-pop investors while coddling the bad actors.

A famous politician once said "Don't under estimate a politicians ability to screw things up!"

This implies your expenses are higher than the previous owner paid last year.Political climate and the COVID anti eviction rules indicate that politicians are significantly more tenant friendly than LL friendly. 

I wish it wasn't.What's probably going to happen now is that you'll carry around this experience and the grudge it engenders for the rest of your life, and after you buy a house, the next time a politician stands up and starts talking about tenant rights and rent control and rent moratoriums, you'll nod along, and bad things will happen to landlords, and we'll all scream bloody murder here and in other forums on how unfair, unfair, unfair it is that people hate landlords so much.How much we contributed as a group to bringing the public outrage on ourselves through unethical, grasping business practices like this, well, that won't be as enthusiastically discussed.

With this cookey politicians in NY/NJ/CT, I do not know how to proceed on two deals we're considering.

I just dislike the politician that steps in like they’re a genius that just thought of this great new idea no one has thought of before.

Even if everyone in LA wanted to do it, it would still be an incredibly slow process.Also, anyone who thinks zoning rules are the main reason for the skyrocketing RE in CA is being fooled by politicians.

They (locals and politicians) wanted the city "cleaned up" and to be more prosperous.