We had similar STR destroying regulations proposed in Portland, ME. 

@Lue Brooks nice goal of starting with being active in the forums, reaching out to others here etc.As a matter of fact, as a fellow newbie I made a similar commitment, but since I had just read the book '10x rule' by Grant Cardone at the time, I decided to try to 10x my posts of that time (I was at 50 posts then) to 500.

If they don't offer any similar services, your only other option may be to leave it in your name full time, and send the statements to the tenant.

Similar to you Gloria the lender was looking for 4 Points as a fee to get things going. 

“The fire suppression ordinance has hindered us more than helped us to bring future growth during tough economic times,” he said.Soliman said that while the ordinance was important for the safety it provided residents, it slowed down growth in the city over the past five years.Soliman mentioned recent attempts by the City of Chicago and Will County to enact similar fire sprinkler ordinances, but those did not pass.

Just went through a similar conundrum myself here in NYC. 

Have you seen cases similar to this where the seller did get audited?

Didn't Seattle recently lose a similar policy in court?

Our philosophy is to keep raising the rent by 50% of the gap between market rent and current rent.Do other similar units include utilities?  

@Kathy EvertIt sounds like since you're looking at an existing purchase and trying to estimate closing costs for the next purchase - they will be similar?