While someone might want to live there, most probably would not, thereby reducing values.Dealing with a municipality means they can devise a public good cause and force sale.

I can tell you that Jefferson county, AL doesn't show recording publicly until the property taxes are paid.

After years of using public restrooms with urinals, the lightbulb comes on, I've never seen one in a home before.

You're wrong, it's a "POCKET VETO" it is not in place, it was caught at the White House According to the news, it was a Rebublican sponsored bill (generally anything that would be a big plus for banks and wall street will be from that side of the isle) , there was no public discussion and it passed with flying colors, the White House caught the deficiencies and how it would effect the situation and it is now dead.

We are going to hold public hearings.

A couple of catches... be very careful because doing so in some states makes you a public utility... and that is not much fun.

Of course, no one told me this when I bought it (through an real estate broker/investor), when I began renovating it (through a contractor/investor), nor when I applied for a rental license at the town's public records.The long and short of it is that my wife and I have poured $75K into renovating the property, including the installation of egress windows and smoke alarms in every sleeping area, all with the plan to rent out 6 of the 8 bedrooms to university students because the University of Maryland is right down the street.

As for books, I made it a point to go to my local public library and check out books that pertained to real estate investing.

Minus public display of affection of course, that still doesn't fly over there.

As I said above, it's about people, not listings on the MLS, those are public, everyone knows that's there.My mom was a very out going person, she and dad (and I) would go someplace and a waitress would wait on us and she'd say " you know anyone who wants to buy a house?"