Those vacation towns are STR friendly, but Michael is right, a lot of urban areas don't allow STRs in CA.

I'd use vacation hours from my 9-5, and pay my future self by completing the easy projects.

They sent the full rent payment and trying to ignore the 60 day notice to vacate by paying for the full month.

John said  "not your friend" I for one have turn many buyers and sellers into some of our best friends, dinners and drinks, Super Bowl party, and even a vacation together.  

If she finds mold, she can give notice and vacate.

 Read the description of this condo doing it at the beach where I vacation, is this how you're doing it?  

In my opinion, both needed similar amounts of work to get the vacation rental ready, his just showed better and had some cute updates.  

If his income situation doesn't change though, you'd need to ensure that he vacates at the end of the lease term if he can't pay all rent up front again.

But the smaller properties (1 or 2 bed, 1,000 to 1300 sq ft) have actually continued to rise.My guess would be the people with a family of four that were coming in and staying at the larger 3 bedrooms are deciding that its more economical to just rent out the 1 or 2 bedroom places so that they can still vacation at a cabin but at a more reasonable price.Additionally, two and three years ago, the numbers on the larger ones just made more sense so people went a built a bunch of those but the small ones not so much. 

Same for the vacation rental people, and I would put a few signs up inside and out to remind them.