I do very little research into vacation rentals, but I do quite a bit of research into STRs for travelling or temporary workers.  

If you have a strong margin of safety then you will continue to make your debt service and the temporary fluctuation in cap rates won't harm you.  

I don't want to sell yet since I am moving to a temporary job and have only owned for 1.5 years.My unit is covered by rent control and just cause evictions.  

@Gareth Fisher reserves only serve as temporary relief.

You can always use Hard Money Lending...but those are temporary loans.  

There are forums online that we can't mention here where you can find sweet deals on how to park temporary cash for big bonuses.P2P lending is *not* a good place to park money as it lacks liquidity and it's actually scammy.

I will be looking for a short term, cheap apartment since it will only be a temporary living arrangement.

Eviction is a good strategy however the homeowner is not on board, so I would either have to close to evict myself or my buyer would, obvious not great scenarios for either of us.We ultimately agreed on them finding a new place, I'm going to help them with that search, but after we told them they needed to leave and once they settled down, they took it upon themselves to find a new place, they found a temporary home in another part of the city and will be moving out next week at no expense to me or my buyer. 

Between the late fees and penalties, it's been about $200 extra each month (rent is $985)My partner wants to set her up on a temporary payment plan over the next three months where she makes a mid month payment in addition to the first month payment, which is scaled to help her get back on track to paying full on the first again by July 1st.I want to help her get back to paying on the 1st but also like getting the extra money in late fees each month.

There are a variety of reasons, such as last-minute bankruptcy, error in following the procedure, temporary restraining order that was granted but not delivered until too late, etc.F Foster, the civil code governing foreclosure in California is 2924 et seq.