With rent control and increased taxation seemingly inevitable for San Diego landlords (considering local and state government LOVES framing us as the greedy bad guys) I think the writing is on the wall, and now/soon is a good time to sell. 

To go forward, or scale your portfolio: My usual lender calls the conventional mortgages “golden tickets” and there are only 10 of them, per Fannie and Freddie (the government agencies that guarantee the loans). 

Check with your local government entity in charge of titling vehicles.

The glorious U.S. of A does a lot of things right, but man, this government loves big banks.

If you can walk into your local bank with great credit, have no capped yourself on the governed Fannie REI's, and are able to spend the time yourself to go through the full-doc underwriting process, title commitments, property insurance correspondence, and appraisal stages, then I think you're better off going that route.

It does not look like its on the table for the government to get rid of the program and if so I read they would keep the program for all current participants.  

It is however entirely dependant on th elocal government handlers regarding dependability of tenants.

Adult toys.Cell phones are not a luxury any more for our modern way of life.When the world was ruled by landlines, the government mandated the Lifeline Assistance Program.

Three sectors — retail, business services and government — are hurting overall job growth.Businesses are spending more on equipment (automation), and that was one of his highlights of yesterday’s third-quarter GDP revisions up to 3.3 percent growth.Regardless of politics and feelings about tone and Twitter storms from President Donald Trump, the U.S. economy is performing well – at least for investors, businesses and the wealthy.Trump’s rhetoric on trade — including China and the North American Free Trade Agreement with Mexico and Canada — hasn’t resulted in all-out trade wars.Geopolitical turmoil, including North Korea’s missile tests, could be the biggest threat to a continuation of the current positive economic climate.

its all part of over reach by people allowing town governments to invade their freedom, rights, and in Maine its lot little power struggles with old stock and trying get more tax money from landlords to support tiwn spending spree and thus government workers, ceo, etc who only get pay check from tax revenue base so its partly job security under guise of tenant safety.