If you feel they're being too harsh, think about their intent.

If you feel they're being too harsh, think about their intent.

Washes will likely need an environmental survey that can be complex. a great person to connect with would be a chemical supplier.

It will feel cold and harsh, but you have to be very clear that you follow the lease and there is no wiggle room because if you give an inch they will take a mile and you have set a precedent of not following the lease and creating a "verbal" agreement that you didn't intend to.   

Any cement previously drilled through where a termite company injected their chemical and patched the concrete?

To the North is Camp Pendleton and Orange County, To the East quickly test harsh (and you get Imperial County that no one would mistake for San Diego). 

Not trying to be harsh but just based on the way your post is written, you don't seem ready to get into the short term rental business. 

Stop believing that is the crazy world that made your experience harsh and realize that you could have managed the property better and greatly lessened the chances of such a bad experience. 

The San Diego housing shortage will take more than a decade to be resolved (and may never be resolved as the land is constrained on South by Mexico, West by the Pacific, North by Camp Pendleton, and to the East it quickly gets harsh). 

But the patient and disciplined investors are being rewarded as long as they buy in the right location and don't overpay for the deal.That is more than a bit harsh.