Con men dont reform and become good people....

Pretty much everywhere (at least around here) the process goes something like this: inspectors and permit people need to justify their jobs, so they make the process more difficult than it already is, with added BS that doesn't pass muster with any standard like the IBC or NFPA, the City Council says "Well, they're the experts" and acquiesce, eventually enough contractors start screaming at council members, who direct staff to make changes, who make the 10 page permit process a 9 page process and call it a successful reform 🙄 .

But for me living through tax reform ( working for a syndicator in the Bay Area in late 80s) this was their playbook."

Remember, you provide housing not personal reform. 

This reform is trying to change that, but if commission is how things are paid it doesn't change anything.

Rental Activity Eligible for the QBI Deduction Under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) tax reform bill, you can deduct up to 20% of your qualified business income.

I support welfare reform.

As we transition to electronic records and the chance of title issues from paper records fades into the decades I hope the heat from reform efforts breaks through to the regulations to create a system that is more optimal.  

Why doesn't the RE commission in Illinois simply upload all of their standard RE forms to their website and allow anyone and everyone to download??

And tax reform in those days just hammered them and then N.