Legislators in Albany, for their part, may have cut off their nose to spite their face: the draconian changes will lead to less tax revenue to pay for essential government services.

(Guess who got that piece of legislation passed - the banks).  

Being a tenant/landlord-friendly state is subjective so outside of what's written in their legislation, I'm not sure what kind of concrete evidence you're looking for.

@Rick AlbertADU’s are really taking off in CA with the new zoning legislation.

@Aaron XieA knowledgable commercial broker in the market is essential - particularly if you are remote.Commercial leases do not have as rigid/complete overarching legislation framework to which they are subservient as is the case with residential tenants ... the contract is pretty much everything can be far more involved.

The way the SEC has implemented this legislative mandate means that there will now be two different types of offering under Regulation D’s Rule 506: • Traditional Rule 506(b) offerings, which cannot use general solicitation, but in which up to 35 non-­‐accredited investors can participate so long as they are provided with extensive information about the issuer of the securities, usually in the form of a private placement memorandum or PPM; and • New Rule 506(c) offerings, which can use general solicitation, but must be sold to accredited investors only, in which the market will let investors dictate the type of information that they need in order to make informed investment decisions.

All of the investors I know and work with have been on a hiatus until the market levels out a bit or until the legislative issues are resolved.

I have done two land contracts in the past before the whole Dodd-Frank legislation came up. 

They are a very valuable resource for information on state laws and they work to protect the interests of community owners legislatively as well as provide networking opportunities with other community owners in the state ( An example:  http://imha.org/  ) And Yes, land lease communities can be a far superior investment when compared to other types of commercial real estate.

But, the upzoning is also a simple and certain cut-and-dried process that eliminates the need for costly land use variances.In short, the county council is dawdling about passing the final piece of land use legislation that's required to open up the county's SW Urban Growth Area between Everett and Lynnwood surrounding Paine Field, where there is enough relatively inexpensive undeveloped commercial land, especially along 3.5 miles of Hwy 99, to build 10,000 or more new apartments and condos.