If not, are you going to have to dig/build some sort of french drain?  

If not, are you going to be able to line up a $50k+/year job once you're back in California?  

I've also tried changing the covenants with my HOA, but we got 14 notarized yes votes, 1 notarized no vote, and I need 65 notarized yes signatures to change the rule to allow HOA to grant a waiver to the covenants.Here's the problem:In the county I live in, the vast majority (I'd say over 85%) of the properties that were built since the 1960s are under some form of covenants that restrict the property to being "only residential," "exclusively residential," or outright prohibiting business activity such as my covenants say.

In our state (Idaho), we have to have a notarized Affidavit of Service every time we do a Pay or Quit.  

While I was looking at the Deed - the notarized/ signed one, I noted they list the purchase/ sale price as $21,501 - a difference of $6,000 vs. what I paid.

It requires rental contracts to have a disclosure creating “rebuttable presumptions” that tenants don’t have the right to live there if they can’t furnish a notarized or management-signed lease.

Looked on the roof and saw shingles sliding down and no tar paper under the shingles.

This is all from research, I have not actually been a witness or participant in any type of deal, so my knowledge of processes and what not are spotty. 

If not, are you willing to move many miles away and try to settle, and then come to find out you might not be able to/not enjoy house hacking?

Check out the City's rental license application this is the sections that has to be signed and notarized.."