Given that CA has a history of the most liberal possible application and interpretation of many laws, it would seem prudent to err on the side of caution.Specifically, HIPPA even limits what can be disclosed to an insurance company or a financially responsible party, unless it is for the sole purpose of getting a specific claim paid.  

Heck yeah you ought to take an attorney's advice into consideration when drafting a rental agreement and I'd HIGHLY recommend getting some referrals on that as well, you want one who's well versed LOCALLY in what flies and what doesn't, which here as was explained to myself and at least one other BP member attended, plus many more (and a rather "famous" BP member at that who I recognized from her profile pic, but she certainly seems to know what she's doing with rentals and was at the same event, a "landlord bootcamp" where the local attorney who I've been told is THE BEST landlord atty to call in a crisis taught the ins and outs of this stuff) but part of what he explained was how in Milwaukee Cty the judiciary of this county of nearly 1M residents which ranges from very poor areas to very wealthy areas has mostly very liberal, left leaning judges who generally ALWAYS find any reason they can to take the tenant's side and often give some awful tenants "one more chance" much to the landlord's chagrin.

I think books like this will be the new darling of the liberal professors ( taking the place of books like Nickled & Dimed)  as our society is being told that no matter how many bad decisions you make including but not limited to failure to get the right education or job skills...having kids before you can afford them etc...housing is a RIGHT and an entitlement and at a price they think they should pay...it can't hurt to read a book like this to understand the changes that may be coming...might make an investor want to consider other options than buy and hold...forewarned is forearmed

Especially politiclly liberal places like SF and SM want to retain "affordable rentals."

How long does eviction take in liberal Mass ?  

This debate is no longer about facts.We can clearly see we have one group, mainly consisting of liberals who believe you should follow the letter of the law and abide by what the state dictates is fair and equitable as government should be unquestioned legal and moral arbiter of what is best for society.And we have another group mainly consisting of conservatives/libertarians who believe they should be free to make their own decisions on what they want to do with their own properties even if the government wants otherwise for a greater "social good."

You will have no say.While I do believe that a large number of liberals here are getting fed up with the failures and things will start to swing back toward sanity, it may take a long time.

I'm a pretty liberal person but when I see things like this it just makes me shake my head.

I'm on the liberal side of moderate, and still try to help people, but I've been taken advantage of more times than I can count (though I do stop once this happens- it's better to take a chance on people as some will appreciate it.

Sometimes you have to save your own sanity.I think hiring a property management company and stepping away from the whole process would be liberating for you.