http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2014/09/30/14-effective-pages-for-a-fully-optimized-lead-generating-website/

For example, city of Austin has some rediculous energy efficiency requirements as well as ever-changing codes that take effect on properties with an ownership change regardless of how old the building is. 

Karen, you take away the legal and illegal immigrants effects on population and we would have had been losing population since the mid 80s.

No effect on taxes at all, unless you elect special tax treatment. 

They are no where near as effective as they use to be, so please do keep us posted how you do!

Here's a list of the improvements:-Replaced the roof-Landscaped the front yard with new sod, shrubs, flowers, mulch, etc.

*****ROFR’s are therefore not an effective substitute for an investor seller who wants to pre-set an above-market price in order to lock in a long-term profit.

Double the effect !

He effectively gets a sale and you get properties with no money down.

But, when you say you help people when "setting up and building" their REI portfolio, I wonder how you can effectively do that, when you don't understand how to access equity within the portfolio.