Ya you have a reason to have a beef with the former PM but I you fall short of being able to sue or be entitled to any payment from your former PM.

We have decided to invest before we purchase our first family home in Southern California, we want to beef up our income and savings so that we can purchase something we like instead of something just to have.

It is sad that I feel the need to write this disclaimer, but it is just a byproduct of what our society has become!

I have some friends who manage rentals in borderline war zones (one has a quadplex on Justina Rd hehe) and I could beef up security with a fence and motion lights, etc. 

You can research by product type: garden style, podium, etc.

Some of our tenants such as our students and commercial tenants may get a personal visit from time to time so we can check on the building.A byproduct of developing a tailored rent collection system is that you as the property manager have the opportunity to get to know each tenant, and developing relationships is one of the keys to long term tenancies.

In my mind if you focus on taking care of your investors, you will end up taking care of yourself as a by product. 

To better understand it I dug deeper and found the actual MLS listingAverage HH income in this area is $25K so I would beef up your vacancy a bit. 

Hippo, the $1B “insuretech” startup is beefing up its local presence with work underway on a 40,000-sq-ft office campus at Fifth and Sabine street in downtown Austin that’s scheduled to open by the end of 2021https://austin.culturemap.com/news/innovation/07-24-20-tech-startup-hippo-downtown-austin-new-downtown-campus/

Makes the house look so much better I would beef up the landscaping in the front of the house to improve curb appeal