Not sure they will do it. 

Often the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing, so to speak.  

If you don't have free cash available that limits lots of options, but if you do, that is another story. 

Do you have the appraisal done?

We’re considering whether to do mid-grade updates and rent it soon if we can find a good next property though acquisition and ongoing costs are a problem.

I can see an explicit exception in CA Tax Code § 17561 that says you can not use the qualifications in Section 469(c)(7) (Real estate professional) to render that income as non-passive, but I see no callout for 1.469-1T and, as such - as a non-CPA - I do not (yet) see a reason why we cannot follow the same rules for CA that we do for our federal taxes; e.g., if the business is not a "rental" business per tax code, we count that income as non-passive and offset other income (W2, etc) similarly.Does anybody else have some guidance (or opinions) on this matter?

Do you ever make it to any of the CHS meetups?

Get her out as quickly as possible.

How do they ensure the data is updated daily or weekly if they get from county websites and the bulk data they get from these county/notices and court websites is it like a web scraper?

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