Porter hit it on the nose. 

Glad I didn’t read Russel’s post while I had coffee, may have come out my nose...On a serious note, our location is somewhat unique as we’re not a pure vacation nor a big city.  

I've had my current job for 2 1/2 yrs making 75K per year and have a clean background but before I had my current job I was unemployed for a while and ended up filing for bankruptcy causing my credit to take a huge nose dive (sub 500 range). my Question is: to avoid the credit requirement (I wouldn't be able to find a co-signer) would I be able to put an entire lease down as a security deposit and pay my rent as usual so long as my income qualified?

Tenant's dirty clothes are all over the floor, people got to step over it, smelly dishes in the sink for weeks, and people had to hold their noses to see the place in addition to seeing my filthy tenant with his foot long beard.

If your nose can't tell if you're talking to a smoker, I don't know what to tell you.If you want to find out if you're talking to a pet owner, start talking about your pet. 

Just as I transfer my weight to the first step I hear that unmistakable crack of wood fracturing.

@James Nosack long time no see brother!

Agree with you, this first rent control measure is just the camels nose under the tent, more will follow.

(I personally hate loans but am planning to cash out refi some of my holdings if the market continues to nose dive and we have a chance of seeing crazy recession level deals again!)

If it would, then I'd not cut off the nose to spite the face.In general the process of splitting the parcel successfully is going to depend on whether or not your parcel is large enough to be split and both of the resulting new lots meet the city's ordinances regarding lot size, road frontage, etc.