That choice IS ILLEGAL (in Calif) and unsafe - - creates  aa fire trap :sigh:

Pools are death traps.

It is frustrating but for some reason, with all the experience available, new landlords all seem to fall into the same basic tenant traps.

Anyways it's a duplex and the apartment is infested with roaches and every other insect there is.

However,even if an apparently abandoned property is not already open when I become involved with it, I am very confident that in every instance I can make a solid case in court that it was reasonable for me to believe the actual owner of an apparently abandoned property would have allowed me "to enter or remain" as provided for in section (3) of the law quoted above. 

If they are power hogs or water wasters let them deal with the bills themselves.Trash should be the only thing covered by rent to insure service every week and doesn't get stopped by non payment.Don't give them an excuse to let garbage pile up and attract insects and government fines.

I will not be trapped into a high risk loan with large payments because you get squeezed if tenants go out.Even though you are hardly cash flowing you might be able to sell at a premium and 1031 exchange into another market or asset class type.

I remember one about a clogged sink drain that ended up being spaghetti caught is the p-trap, so stupid, such a waist or time.

Property shall be free of insect and/or rodent infestation;10. 

I do however perform a 1x a year wood destroying insect/organism inspection 1 x a year to maintain the warranty there-of.