Also I did make the mistake of asking someone to fill an empty unit, it worked out ok but they just put the first warm body in it.

Natural barriers to expansion meaning bodies of water etc. that make building impossible or very difficult.  

Invest in some good body armor. 

"The Property Tax Appeal Board (PTAB) is a quasi-judicial body made up of five Members and a professional staff which serves the Board.

You will have to get the proper approval through whatever bureaucratic bodies have jurisdiction over there property and financing will be a whole different can of worms.

This implies that a local agency would be a local code agency/government body, not a state-owned corporation.Also, California Code in another piece of legislation does have a definition:https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?

I have four major stores in my market, Lowes, Home Depot, Fleet Farm and Menards.

Any body know a good list broker that would be able to put together a absentee landlord list?

I would take tenant A because there are less bodies in the home and a higher income.

Therefore you are actually putting voided deeds into escrow which does no body any good.