I also had a registered sex offender pervert apply .

Usually in the leases, they pay a prorata share of Insurance, Taxes, and CAM's (Common Area Maintenance) with the other retail tenants.

Things are pricy, international investors park so much money here and thin out the margins and taxes and CAM fees are through the roof, and i don’t like the idea of speculating on appreciation.

If your spouse is a real estate professional of which a real estate agent qualifies, then you are unlimited in the amount of ordinary income you can "shelter".And since you are in California you are not just limited to the opposite sex in a mate.

Discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, familial status, or national origin in the terms, conditions or privileges of sale or rental of a dwelling.familial status,, is not something you can discriminate on,, .. married,single, divorced, separated, unmarried, man and man, woman and woman or man and wife or blah blah.google Fair Housing Act.. and then Google Rental Criteria,, so you can start fresh with your rental business, or hire a PM..

I did have a situation where an applicant had served 12 years on a sex crime.

I just don't want drug dealers or sex offenders in my property, whether they are 14 or 114....

(This is a hysterical laugh...)Here is what I've been searching for the last half hour:IP Security Camera with or without tilt controlNight visionMotion sensorBattery operated/solar poweredOutdoor/indoorBuilt-in internet / mobile connection (ie records video to cloud without internet present)Affordable (<~$100)I'm not sure if I'm searching the right keywords, but here are the items I've found which still don't do fall 100% under the criteria I listed above:http://www.amazon.com/TENVIS-JPT3815W-Surveillance...http://pro-vigil.com/live-security-monitoring/http://www.amazon.com/Foscam-FI8918W-Wireless-Netw...http://www.amazon.com/Covert-Special-Ops-Cellular-...The last one is a trail cam which takes pics and sends them through MMS!

One retail center with 10 tenants and each having a different 40 page lease is 400 pages to look at not including LOI, purchase and sale,appraisal, environmental phase one, site inspection, survey, title exceptions,repair bids, service contracts, property management agreements, profit and loss statements, cam reconciliation reports, rent rolls, trialing 36 months, loan covenants, etc.I just stopped but there is much more so one deal can have over 1,000 pages to review.That's scary if a buyer is putting millions at risk with an unseasoned residential broker with dollar signs in their eyes dreaming of a big check.

Also, since I typically rent to families, I like to check our state's public sex offender registry site once I narrow down a property.