While sealant can give extra water protection, it might also trap moisture, leading to potential issues like mold.

Each city has its own laundry list of licensing requirements, but they have not had the power to limit the number of rentals or make other market-limiting moves.This issue is likely to come up again.

Good luckThank you Dan for the detailed response. on 1, This seems to be an systematic issue because when additional living space is introduced that should result into increase in value.

This will show traffic, civil, and criminal issues and local history.

This pain is going to be either in you labor, legal fights, tenant issues, but most likely a combination of all of them.

State - it depends, you can have real estate transfer tax issues / re assessment issues. 

I think the expected maintenance issues (plumbing, HVAC, and the like) really ate into cash flow that I developed over time and has kept me at a plateau-like position.

Some people with cash to throw around don't look so diligently and run into cash flow issues.3: Life style: We decided to downscale our lifestyle and even do away with our cars for a short while.

Our MTR does and we run the risk of Measure 1 issues, someday.

the issue right now is that with both prices and rates high, it is very, very tough to have cash flow unless you're employing some kind of creative and/or hands-on and/or value-add strategy, or combination of strategies.