You have to now figure out where the puck is headed in the future in Atlanta.Also keep in mind we have two fine public universities in Georgia: Georgia Tech and University of Georgia - Athens. 

With no savings any little blip of reduced hours and loss of income and they are toast.

As @Mindy Jensen says, it is very possible that your bank will reduce or waive the fees if this is a rare event for you.

Landlords publicly complain about rent control while secretly loving it because it discourages new construction, it makes market rents rise even faster than normal and it gives you downside protection because your property will never see a decrease in revenue even in recessions.

Many of the best deals never get publicly listed, and brokers' best clients who have a track record of closing get first dibs.Build and nurture relationships w/ commercial brokers.  

The law can be found under the preconditions heading of rent escrow law in baltimore city's public laws, section 9.

Options are still a great tool in the tool box, it's going to take some education to learn what they really are and do as opposed to the folklore found in public forums, blogs and sold as a product by gurus.

Zillow "...generates unbiased local and national real estate data and analysis on 929 metropolitan areas and approximately 10,400 individual neighborhoods that we provide to consumers and real estate, rental, mortgage and home improvement professionals..." (2) The Zillow database focus is data aggregation of 110 million properties with "information from tens of thousands of public and private sources."

Than I would present them all to the landlord with the expectation that he fixes them or reduces the cost.

First, become familiar with the duties and responsibilities of your agency relationship and how you are to conduct business with the public.