I really appreciate your insights and obviously I have underestimated the impact to a large degree. 

What are thoughts on the impact of this New York Judge's ruling last week?

My general rule of thumb on major foundation work:If the work is visibly obvious to the buyer, it will impact your ability to sell at market price.

I stayed in this one in Denver.http://www.castlemarne.comA B&B or nightly rental is as much a business as it is a real estate investment.Perhaps you need permanent financing if you are going to keep it.

Although I or you may not agree with him about some or maybe everything he writes he does raise some interesting points.http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/03/why-i-am-never-going-to-own-a-home-again/But what's the impact on people looking to own houses for investment purposes?

These are significant investments that in all likelihood will have a meaningful impact on the buyers income, wealth and future. 

He'll be contracting out all the conversion work and the numbers make sense, with immediate positive cashflow.He's also going to be adding a new permanent RV/tiny house hookup as an extra cashflow source, essentially creating a "2.5-plex."

A single credit check for pre approval on a potential mortgage should have very little impact on your credit score, maybe a few points.

Account Closed More curious on how they will impact markets rather than being negative.  

(I won;t go into the limited exceptions here)  The CA legislators felt like it was unfair to the tenant to have disputes with the current landlord impair their right to get credit and future housing, so they made essentially sealed these cases from public view.This will have two impacts.