My goal is to move out of this duplex eventually in a few years and rent the other side out to extract the most cash flow possible.

You can also extract it from public records.

If you're looking to extract more than a few grand, you're looking for too much.

I believe it's because many landlords want to passively extract money for communities and don’t want to contribute their pro-rata share towards advocating for the neighborhood.

Hire a talented manager and make sure that you're extracting maximum revenue from the remaining holdings. 

If so, sometimes condos can be challenging as investor owners often don't want to do upgrades and updates, many just want to run the property into the ground and extract as much cash as they can get today, without thought to the future.   

One of the snags I see with your plan is taking forever to get enough equity to extract for a down payment on a home in California.

A: Only the full appraisal roll extract is provided as an electronic data set.

I just purchased an out of state rental this month and want to extract the down payment from this investment condo.I'll put it on market in March 2017 and do a 1031 exchange with 2 out of state properties.  

I'm a jack of all trades-- I can give you the best root canal, the most painless extraction, a beautiful smile.