You want to visit their offices in your area, where you'll get more info on landlord/tenant laws. you'll also be able to get on their list of Section 8 approved properties.

My sister-in-law spent 7 hours driving home (12 miles) from work yesterday.

Sometimes, I think more information is not necessarily more useful information.. unless you're talking about big multiple big multifamily projects and have a big law of averages on your side..

I learned about the law and real estate so I could better manage the professionals I hired.

I too am looking for a CPA who specializes in real estate tax law.

I think there was a law passed some years back that basically said escrow has to actually perform the service before it can charge for it, things got better but one wonders why they can't just include everything in the base fee.

A lawyer probably isn't the best person to tell you how to develop a business plan for real estate- they're in the law business, after all, not the real estate biz ;) To know what are effective strategies requires being directly active in the business.You may well be able to garner enough info here on BP to help you with your items #1 and #2 above.

Depends on how you represent the deal in getting the distressed or depressed sale price, yes, you could break laws and yes you could act unethical, but you don't have to do those things.Wealth Intelligence Academy, (LOL, who thought of that one?)

Usually as long as you keep the use the same, i.e. keep it a multifamily, you are able to keep the protections of the preexisting use (please check with local laws/ordinances as I am not a lawyer).

Everyone is blaming the new laws that went into effect in early Jan.