California charges a minimum tax of $800 a year per LLC, and more if you have gross receipts in excess of $250k.

  $10 to the tenant to make a payment certainly seems excessive in your current solution.  

If you already have two tenants, that means your rental unit has been approved..your tenants are screened (since they have to be screen through the housing authority) and you get to promote your rental place for free?

California charges a minimum tax of $800 a year per LLC, and more if you have gross receipts in excess of $250k.

The author was completely empathetic to my client.

The author was completely empathetic to my client.

The intention behind this legislation is to protect tenants from excessive financial burdens.

Some of the repairs we authorized but some were done without our consent - we were just billed.

An annoying fee, yes, and eats into cash flow and profits which is why you likely started on this endeavor, but the lengths people go to try to avoid what is, in the end, only $800 seems excessive sometimes.So, we don't have all of the facts or copies of any documents here, but generally, a trust only governs any assets that it owns. 

The guaranteed payments from the housing authority is appealing to me.