The concept here is to get to the point where your tenants pay for your housing expenses, which should give you some excess income to save and invest.These initial steps could get you to a point where you have a few doors and maybe even have your tenants covering your own housing expenses.Think carefully about selling, it seems counter-productive if you want to be an investor.

I've reached out to the local housing authority for additional information waiting to hear back. 

https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/2024/03/over-240-california-community-organizations-unite-againstLate in the legislative process the tax was slipped into a 2022 law, A.B. 205, authorizing the California Public Utilities Commission, or CPUC, to add a fixed charge to electricity bills based on household income.

Some landlords will not talk to you unless you have a signed form by the tenant authorizing communication or the tenant calls to authorize in advance. 

. - I hear your concern about a potential excess of new housing;  I used to share it as well. 

There is a lot of building going on and prices are quite high so I am not sure there will be excess appreciation.

The CMHA payment standard refers to the maximum amount that the Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA) is willing to subsidize for housing assistance programs, such as the Housing Choice Voucher (Section 8) program.

He has given me a copy of his Accord form for his liability insurance but I'm not an authorized user or additional insured.

As such, Seller grants Buyerlimited and specific authorization as its attorney in fact to potentially advertise the property and execute any documentsincluding listing agreement(s), disclosures, cancellations, sales contracts and addendums.

Accounting firms typically have nothing to do with this process unless somehow the title company subcontracted the preparation of the 8288 to them (which really isn’t necessary as it doesn’t require tax expertise, only familiarity with the FIRPTA procedures in general, which any title co who’s worked with a sale by a foreign person would likely know).This is indeed a weird situation and it definitely is unsupported by any authority in the code and regulations to send the withholding tax amount to an accounting firm acting as a middle man for the IRS unless they somehow expressly made an agreement to do so.Good luck with that