Kicking her out will only stop your money and necessitate an immediate rehab.

The benefit to Tenants for that arrangement is theoretically their lower Rent per month (vs other properties where utilities ARE included).I'm not sure if applying for subdivision would be worth the hassles/headaches/expense, unless your exit plan necessitates being able to sell one at a time. 

Just because your personal lifestyle doesn't warrant being an occupant homeowner, doesn't mean you can't benefit from others with lifestyle needs necessitating a backyard but without homeownership, that need a housing provider (ie, you) to provide and maintain for it.

If budget necessitates, pay extra for a good installer and do 100% LVT.

I'm not saying you're wrong, clearly you have been very successful, but to me the risk mitigation factor alone necessitates having some kind of money partner."

I would like to avoid the unknown utility bill, especially in an area that typically necessitates either A/C or heat for much of the year.If I'm leaving out critical context, just ask.Thank you,Tom

If you set an abnormally high option fee, which necessitates the {potential} purchaser pay it in instalments, then you start treading into the grey area that the CRA may deem a disguised instalment sale.If you go back to the stock-option analogy, the option fee is a small percentage of the strike price (say <1 - 3%) and is a fee for the option right only - it is not refundable and does not constitute the downpayment on the property (when the option holder exercises, s/he will make a downpayment and arrange their own mortgage).

In some jurisdictions {such has our own local one}  purchaser is able to request vacant delivery of the property under a limited set of circumstances: purchaser, or immediate family member, will be occupying the premises as their primary residence;purchaser intends to undertake significant renovations - the nature of which necessitates the property be empty {there is usually a corresponding condition that theses renovations must commence within X weeks/months of possession}purchaser intends to demolish the property.I do not know if California has exceptions allowing purchasers to break an existing lease, but there are lots of folks here who do (@K.

@Vic French, I feel like everyone agreeing with you lacks reading comprehension.Your tenant is not operating a childcare business, she has her own job which is what necessitates the childcare.

My thought process was that a landlord wouldn't want a house that needed the electrical system re-done, which then made me view the property only as a "rehab for resale," which necessitated a bunch other stuff like kitchen, bathrooms, replacing old, but functional mechanical systems, etc.