With that said, given how harsh the anti-landlord laws in the city seem to be, having a higher volume of tenants seems scary with only one unit.

I think its the newer accounts that may be having issues.

The state politicians (Senator Wienkowski, etc) in CA behave as though they believe everyone who wants to live in those cities should be able to even at the cost of what makes some of the areas special.Changing rules statewide to increase zoning will lead to the highly desired low density areas to having increased density resulting in no desirable areas maintaining a low density situation.Many people love city life and are fine living in high density areas (like downtown San Diego).  

I might be having trouble trying to convey an idea about real estate investing.

Interestingly enough "the powers that be" have finally announced U3 is at 5.3%OP, IMHO there's no '08 crash on the horizon.

Calling it a mid-term doesn't change the law or how you should behave as the landlord.

Service dogs typically wear a vest, and are very well behaved- sitting calmly at the owners feet. 

A smart squatter will just figure out the drive-by schedule and move in afterwards....It will soon come to the point where we can never leave a house sitting vacant.....Did y'all ever think we'd even be having this conversation....? 

Set the expectations from the beginning on how they need behave, or expect nothing but problems once they take possession.

I have recently started to believe that it is less a choice between the two and more a way to diversify wealth with assets that behave very differently.