I know many property managers that no longer use Rhino because they refuse to pay out.The other option is a surety bond.

It's lengthy and of course, they can pick and choose what to read or jump around to what they want to learn. 

A quick search says they have 5 days to appeal and must post a bond equal to a months rent.

YUP minimum requirements.. although you would be surprised how many folks cannot get a bond because they lack credit score.. this will weed out the really poor players and give state a vehicle to regualted those that violate the laws without all the grey area currently.

For people that want to close and make it pretty/official/permitted/etc once they are owners, the question is "what is the cheapest way we can get this to pass an appraisal without the appraiser calling for a licensed/bonded/professional/whatever to fix things prior to closing?"

Maybe if you’re really willing to cash out, then buying bonds seems to be the strategy with the most certainty today.

@Carini Rochester I agree with Greg but to be clear Good Cause does not require a landlord to provide free housing, it just forces them go through the onerous and expensive and lengthy process of actually going for non payment eviction instead of a hold over proceeding, when the landlord knows that a monetary judgement is worthless and just wants possession of their rental unit back so they can fix it back up and rent it again hopefully to a great tenant.Also the problem with all this is that from 2019 to now, landlords have gotten used to having economically or physically vacant units and have priced that risk in. 

You will make a better return with less risk keeping your money in a CD or bond. 

And it found that over the long term, real estate trounced treasuries and bonds.

That's BSFor all you lurkers...my family legally immigrated from S.America.Jay knows how hard it is to get a license here in CA and keep it legal.The illegal contractors drive up our bond rates, liability insurance etc.