By house hacking, you're immediately positioned as a landlord, which will adequately pressure you to learn how to structure your leases, screen applications, collect rental payments, resolve the nuances of managing tenants and addressing property issues, etc.

Insurance is definitely an issue there, and will continue to be.

Clearly, shes not happy and an unhappy tenant usually results in more issues down the road, and you can bet they'll be expensive issues. 

The snow companies that are good can be really pricey and we have had issues with some of the smaller guys in past.

It's definitely one of those issues that is very specific, and would need to be worked out with Planning.

. - Just be prepared, because a motivated seller typically has a property with issues you need to be sure you can solve.

The challenge with S8 in this scenario is you always have a piano over your head and all a tenant has to do is call the code office to create an issue for you. 

Makes me think they could be too busy taking care of a new baby to attend to guest issues? 

Requiring a copy of a government-issued ID is a good extra layer of security.

Do you see any new rental property up in the market has increased rent since L.A. fire issue?