If you advertise, you interview, you paint the room, you replace the broken window pane, then a company has some benefits.

I also noticed putting my time into these activities puts a strain on other activities such as expanding my portfolio and researching for other great deals. 

It seems SoCal's strained housing market gives Section 8 landlords some clout, but I am inexperienced with this matter

We have our welder install window bars inside the windows and they are designed to look like the French windows where the metal is between the double panes of glass.

It is an annual back-straining exercise to remove and install these units every year.My thought is to go with a high velocity system with 2" diameter tubes for distribution.   

It was expensive and tune consuming, but the results are nice, painted outside, natural oak inside The so called energy savings that will pay for the windows over time is a fallacy.Add a good storm window to a single pane one, bronze spring, and the R value is almost the same.This is a lot of work.

The San Diego RE decline alone should not strain most owners finances.   

And before you answer that, let me just say that our contract specifies solid wood doors throughout the house and he charged us $400 for the "upgrade" to solid wood when he had initially ordered the hollow panel. I

If you have friends or family in a better investing location and they don't mind helping you out a bit, that can take some of the strain out of the finances.

If you move to evict, the could create a real and lasting strain on your familial relationship.