CA taxes residents on worldwide income but may provide a credit for taxes paid to other states.

With Conventional, your brothers do NOT need income, do NOT need credit scores, DO need to be on the loan and live in the property for 1 year.

(Property is already in poor shape).

I paid her $15K via credit card to her paypal account and another $15K by wire money from my bank.

The only downside for me is that they use a credit card which my property management software charges a fee for.

All of the pressure that you are putting on them will make them resentful and leave the property in a poor manner. 

Professional tenants target mom and pop landlords with poor screening processes...rather than large class A and B properties with professional screening processes that disqualify most problem applicants...and lots of neighbors who actually pay their bills.  

I’ll have $50K saved and $8,000 in credit lines. 

I'm renewing my LOC on one of my rentals with a local community bank through their commercial banking dept. They want 1% origination points plus a bunch of other usual fees like title work. They already did the title ...

I talked to two different local credit unions about pulling 300K in locked equity out of our former primary home that we converted to a short term rental last year.