The studies conducted by Jan Brake1 and Don McIntyre, under a grant from the General Service Foundation, constitute a first effort to inquire into the practical effect on the residential landlord-tenant relationship of legislation modeled after the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act (URLTA). These are modest studies of a difficult relationship, and they cannot be expected to yield many definitive answers. At the same time, this is important work because it pioneers empirical study of this subject. Most important, it gets us to thinking about our expectations of law reform.