They hired new staff to enforce these new regulations.  

If you want a lot of paperwork you will typically end up with a larger residential contractor, who has staff (sales and admin) on payroll to do that.

We actually used to have staff visit all properties of interest in tennessee and Mississippi and do photos and a proper condition report.

Will the office staff (or the owner!!) 

I find it hard to find reliable real estate information from friends: many do not care so much about real estate, and those who did had relatively dated information (telling me to buy in Austin TX or Phoenix AZ after the appreciation had come).Sales people cannot give you impartial advise indeed, so you have to skip the sales talk and look at what impartial sources tell you.

If you have a permanent handyman on staff, he/she could do the boot run in the morning to get the day started, assuming all of your units are close enough together.

Full time maintenance is a down fall, but once you have enough units in a close proximity, you can hire a full time maintenance and staff. 4.

Commercial scales a little better across cities b/c commercial buildings tend to cover a managerial staff, anyway.

Good prices, helpful and polite staff.

There is a small hospital, and I'm curious about the potential of providing nicer (maybe even furnished) rentals to traveling staff.