Nonetheless, you can't control the landlord's intelligence, emotional awareness, or business savvy any more than they can yours.

These methods may not be for all but have worked very well for me over the last decade + I've been investing, and I welcome any counter arguments since different views intelligently debated are what makes this site great and ultimately leads to smart investment decisions IMO.Man, that was novel more than a short story ... 

Then, once you've mastered that, and stabilized your portfolio to cash flow positive again, you can choose to outsource that function intelligently since you'll know what good management looks like, but the more likely outcome is that it will make more sense to continue doing it yourself.

The level of intelligence in that town seems significantly lower than the remainder of the state.

Are you saying that this is artificially propping up values in Los Angeles? 

Talk to a local attorney and see if it's feasible, if it's intelligent to do so, and if so, what do they advise you to do.It's probably better to get proper personalized legal advise on this, vs. online advise.That way you know you are following the law 100%.Talk to your attorney and follow his/her directions about this.You probably don't want to draw a lawsuit from your attorney neighbor for X, Y or Z (because it could be expensive for you to fight it, and for him zero cost).Perhaps just waiting for the survey is most intelligent.Talk to your attorney and follow his/her directions about this.Good Luck! 

It's not for everybody, but for many intelligent people I think it's very much worth the extra effort. 

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His response to my post was an insulting personal attack "I can't wrap my head around" comments are insulting because he is belittling me and my intelligence when he himself missed 5 points I had already made.

Let me be a little more clear then, I think it is highly doubtful that you're going to find many folks from the BP community who can intelligently opine on a what is for the most part a relatively obscure legal concept being applied to what can only be described as a wholly novel event that has as of yet not fully played itself out.