OTH, it is not secured by title necessarily but certainly takes the flavor of an installment sale like a land contract.Regardless, IMO, these Acts will be the new base line from which to judge predatory practices regardless of whether or not a seller is required to comply.

Now, when an equity contract is purchased then the flavor changes as there is a cash outlay and that can impact the treatment of securing collateral and servicing.

Between the buyer and seller, those "life occurances" that mess things up were rather light with only two mentioned, death and bankruptcy with the reaffirmation of the debt agreement, being a good thing, if it's accepted by a trustee.Considering the marketing flavor, excepting that out of the information, considering he is an attorney, I'd say it's a B-... understand I'm speaking as to RE financing and not his legal opinions.

Age, size, rent level, location, market and government all influence the time required.Age is obvious and has been mentionedSize of the property, the bigger it is the more time to make readyRent level, higher income tenants usually take less time to deal withLocation, driving time, meeting tenants, repair tripsMarket, higher vacancy takes more attention, ads, applications, etc.Government influences, code requirements changing, the flavor of the courts and evictions and civic actions involving your property can chew up time.Each property is unique, each tenant is different, your time expensed will be a guess at best.

The more specific you are, making what many might believe is the perfect lease begins to take on the flavor that these are the rules and what I'll keep deposits for.

The question has changed flavor as to advertising the property to advertising with disclosures and conditions and I can see that.

A podcast from Planet Money about 6 months back reported that 8 or 9 of the top college majors for average salary upon graduation were different flavors of engineering.

You might also think about going to some local real estate investment clubs to get a taste of the local flavor.

a little different flavor of crazy here..

There is a saying that all RE is local, that goes to state laws, local customs, what the local judge thinks and political flavors of the day.