My partner is more well versed in that area and apparently it's open to interpretation so because its pretty new we decided to avoid it all together.With all that said, I think now is your time to renegotiate terms with your tenant buyer.  

I think that leaves the law open to interpretation, especially when a practitioner cites the documents I mentioned, however fails to use the terminology within those documents. 

For example, direct employees of a property owner engaging in property management for that owner need not be licensedRef: http://www.allpropertymanagement.com/propertylaw/p...After circling around a half a dozen times, I am going to say that I have interpreted the answer now as NO, and my reason for this is because of the fact I am the owner of the company, and we are not taking a fee from others.But I still feel it might be worth Learning if I can Hang a realtor license without working for a Broker.

In other words, your interpretation is the problem. 

i'm finding it hard to keep abreast of the most recent interpretation of the ongoing CO and smoke alarm rules as applicable to all units in CA, whether owner occupied, multifamily, mixed used, commercial, etc.my area is Los Angeles county mostly, and mostly signal hill and long beach cities.i've heard a new set of rules applies July 2015. what's that about?

Fixed incomes for the retired set are fixed dollar amounts that lose purchasing power over time.I'm open to alternative interpretations of the facts here.

Or are you interpreting it's silence as meaning that the contract law is inapplicable.

Oregon passed it's own law in 2014 to specifically address this issue, so there wouldn't be a loophole or interpretations such as the ones in this thread.  

I do think that you have a good point about having the interpreter as the main point of contact but what happens if the tenants and the interpreter have a falling out and he no longer wants to interpret for them, or he no longer has their best interest at heart?

That way since you did not turn them down based on the check you are not liable for unequal interpretation.