I would be curious if, since the inventory is heavily drawn from subprime crash acquisitions, tenants may have fewer rights than average for rental property.
On the occasion when I had to have a pounding-on-the-law match with a landlord(no, sewage overrunning the kitchen and oozing into all basement level rooms isn’t an acceptable consequence of someone trying to take a shower…); most of the most concretely useful bits(the “here’s a list of things that you can, after providing a specific amount of notice, simply get fixed and with old the repair costs from subsequent rent payments” provision was particularly helpful) were municipal law, presumably in place because there have been lots of rentals, many going poorly, there for a long time.
Out in the burbs, where the municipality, if not unincorporated, is probably younger than some of the housing stock in the city; and the theory was HOAs and mortgages for everyone; the same body of law is unlikely to exist; and that is where a lot of property opened up when mortgages went to hell.
