It gets them a replacement value with mostly public data and possibly a brief inspection.

., Baltimore Gas and Electric, Baltimore Public Works) to be involved that we will pull permits for.

A good commercial broker might even get buyers from their clients database w/o marketing to the public (avoid the tire kickers that will no doubt flood you otherwise)

That bypasses the banks requirements and it never shows up in any public records. 

Think rust belt to sun belt (a super cycle), think east/west coast high company costs looking to relocate to Dallas to reduce employee costs and be close to key strategic transportation routes (DFW, interstates) linking coast to coast in a few hours.The long term trend of more renters has a lot of legs left (millennials, boomers), cost of a house is going up as well as higher rates so that will continue to keep people renting as well.  

I wish we could have been of more use to that end, rather than just trying to toot our own horns for publicity's sake.

We do have a lot of class "C" and even more class "D", but what else do you expect in a blue collar town driven by blue collar warehouse and transportation type jobs.

To the community:This is not a witch hunt - I've just found too often that people are reluctant to say what's really on their minds in public, and so therefore I decided to say something. 

The rules don't take effect for 6 months, but the message is clear.Cities want their hotel tax revenue.Cities don't want those big bad real estate investors to make too much money.Cities don't want rental inventory disappearing from the market.Don't make a highly leveraged 25 year financial commitment on the assumption that current market conditions will remain the same.I stay away from things that the general public get into and it seems everyone wants to rent out an extra room or home.

Sold data is incomplete, pending is barely there, and most photos are removed after sale, so current listing data is all that's there so I don't know why it would be worth anything when it's public to everyone.