One unit is section 8 occupied, with the government portion enough to cover PITI & management fee.

His father was a prominent positive politician and they have legitimate business dealing with their government as well.

That was great read on American history and how our government can really mess things up. 

The fact that the HOA governs what tenants can and can't do keeps the property looking uniform and consistent, quite different than a SFH. 

And because of the similarities between codes and jurisdictions and other government entities I can do this for just about any part of the country (granted the largest cities like LA & NY are their own special case).

In most markets that can legally have STRs and that the local government embraces, you can get up to 50% more in rental income vs traditional rentals. 

It can be done but your getting into state and Federal laws governing securities.

One of the tenants is a problem tenant, and on on government assistance. recently she got in an altercation with one of the other tenants causing them to break their lease and moved out.

Curious what the stance is of government entities in each market in California.

Although we can't be for certain on the payment history of the the tenants, we did find out that one tenant has been there for 13 years (unit B) while two tenants are getting their rents heavily subsidized by the government (I might add unit C is abandoned but the government is paying the rent until the lease is over in a few months or so I'm told and unit D is the one being evicted - he hasn't paid his portion).