First, does your lease address the issue, (such as in this example):  "Tenants will obey all local, regional, and federal laws or be subject to eviction."

With $100k saved up and your brother’s income, you’re in a solid position to make some moves.To address your questions:Investing Route: Since California’s market is tough for first-time investors, out-of-state properties can definitely offer better opportunities.

It serves many benefits for both buyers and sellers and if a law had been passed long ago that all such private transactions were required to be serviced through a thrid party, we would not have as much regulation addressing the issues we have today, specifically, the individual investors under the SAFE Act!

Included in this are the property's address, kind (commercial, single-family, or multi-family), and current market value.

Worst case, I can look up zoning changes and match the address with recent sales, however, if no permits were pulled I do not know if renovations occurred further increasing the value.

Send me the addresses and I'll look them over. 

@Alecia Loveless, I agree for a cosmetic issue not affecting habitability isn't anything that needs to be addressed immediately.

What’s your email address? 

How they've been in the property for 2 months storing their dogs there with no rehab movement, while putting sweat equity into it, but haven't addressed the foundation or any rehab issues yet.

If the owner is an LLC, you can try to check online Corporate records to see who the agent for the LCL is and their address.