A 24 unit will most definitely have maintenance and repairs, as well as cleaning fees and depending on your state laws you may be required to have on site maintenance and management once you start getting into that many units.

I hung my license with my father-in-law, a developer, for a couple years.

If not, check state law.

What new laws help and hurt us as investors?

The education you get to obtain a license is basically real estate law.

I read the new laws and it seems that family and employers still can gift.

Rents will only be able to be adjusted to what the going market rate is AND even more important, you will have to honor the previous owners lease with the tenants until it expires according to state law.

California hoa law is the Davis-Sterling Act, I think, and that spelling may be not quite correct.

Maybe two.Now, you combine that with dems talking about changing foreclosure law to keep people in their overpriced homes as a necessary provision to get anything passed and wow.

Would you suggest I try again with a letter to the same list (law of repitition) or should I make an assumption that my list is bad and go out and buy a new list of absentee homeowners?