Instead of evicting them, i was thinking is there some way that I could rent it back to him for very cheap (mainly to cover just the taxes/ insurance) ie 2k a year rather than the going rate of 2k a month for similar properties.

Hopefully the deposit covers Jan rent, make sure you give them an itemized list of the money owed to you for any damages or unpaid rent. 

For example do you have a great w2 and can you afford to cover costs of a major repair or 3 months of vacancy?

Where rent can cover all these expenses.

Maybe a major news outlet would be interested in covering your story. 

My broker could not find any other carrier to cover a rental condo. 

Lower property taxes, affordable housing compared to LA (CA buyers are usually cash buyers because what they net from their smaller home in CA can get them a bigger home here, often covered by what they net from their CA sale), allergies (smog), and politics. 

Insurance doesn't cover anything anymore and we can almost just pay for all damages with the money we spend on it! 

We have an event this Saturday Feb 12, 2022, you can check out the Bigger Pockets page for it here:https://www.biggerpockets.com/...The group's page on Meetup.com is at:https://www.meetup.com/real-es...There is a $5.00 contribution which you can do in cash at the meeting as well, it doesn't come close to covering the cost of the space but I may be able to get another space shortly. 

I plan to cover multifamily in future videos/streams on my yt channel so you can look for info there as well in the near future (Brady_Morgan).