The Real Estate holding company I am with is now looking at what to do next in response to what we perceive could be the adverse affect of this new law.     

This should indicate that you have financial reserves or are very highly risk adverse.

@William Thorn just happened to me 10 days ago, 3 days before I was ready to close on a piece of apartment land the neighbor filed a lis pendes and law suit claiming adverse possession rights.

Why are people adverse to getting a property and then doing everything on the cheap?

Unfortunately, there would be no way for them to get permit for addition or pool with that in place, so they chose another property rather than tracking down owner or dealing with adverse possession in 1.5 years when it meets the state time period. 

Cost is under $20. ( http://pa.courts.state.mn.us/default.aspx )When adversing the rental, ONLY discuss the actual characteristics of the home...never the type of person you might see or want living there.

Not suggesting there might be any problems; but you don't want anything impacting potential CF adversely.

If you are risk adverse real estate, (especially out of state) is not for you.

If you wish to increase your investments as quickly as possible, If you are not adverse to risk, if you want to earn maximum return on your cash, if you want your property to generate returns as opposed to your cash generating the return, if you have other vehicles that will generate cash flow greater than the prevailing mortgage interest rates then you do not want to park your money in real estate and will see the value of a 30 year loan that is paid by your tennats.

As exciting as the end result paid off for you, that journey of the adversities and overcoming them as well is the real pay.