The government should step up and enforce those laws.

It just takes a few knowledgable and devious tenants to completely derail your investment and the best thing about it is: There is nothing you can do as the state law protectes them.

They are a business with an entire area of law called Insurance Law for them and insurance lawyers.

The HOA/by laws will be your first insight into how restrictive these resort style communities are to keep up with the feel and look of the community. 

My mother in law has had a condo in Cape Coral for over 20 years, wonderful area but the traffic has grown insane, all the time. 

Tax implications are never based on local laws because we are talking about FEDERAL taxes.

I'm worried that if I ever need to involve law or courts for anything like eviction or collections, if/how that would work.

My brother-in-law, a fire marshal, told me that even if the smoke detector is a melted lump of plastic and metal, they can easily determine if it was operational at the time of fire. 

New laws are forcing condo associations to get their reserves properly funded as most have not properly funded reserves for years.  

From CSLB:This section defines what an owner-builder is and the laws surrounding the practice.An owner-builder is what the term indicates: a person owns the property and acts as their own general contractor on the job, and either does the work themselves or has employees (or subcontractors) working on the project.The work site must be their principal place of residence that they have occupied for 12 months prior to completion of the work.The homeowner cannot construct and then sell more than two structures during any three-year period.Getting a GC license and going Legit is pretty difficult.