I've already read four hour workweek, Rich dad poor dad, most of the Rich dad books, seven habits of highly successful people, and various other business books.

I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but cpa and attorney gain from more entities and aside from costs, there isn’t much harm to you.

We wrote about it on our blog about two minutes ago.The BiggerPockets crew have a nasty habit of deleting our posts, but hopefully as it is directly relevant to your post in this thread, they'll leave my post here.

I'd likely do this one as even if you say no, the reality is in most jurisdictions a cracked or broken pane of glass is considered a violation for building habitability.

We don’t know any PMCs to recommend in the area mentioned, but since selecting the wrong PMC is usually more harmful than selecting a bad tenant, you might want to read our series about “How to Screen a PMC Better than a Tenant”:https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/3094/91877-how-to-screen-a-pmc-better-than-a-tenant-part-1-services-and-processesWe recommend you get management contracts from several PMCs and compare the services they cover and, more importantly, what they each DO NOT cover.

I’m wanting to know as a landlord how to better protect yourself and your investment being that there really is no gain in a rental property unless the rent payment is received and you don’t have malicious tenants try to avoid paying rent, or affect you in a way to rob you from that income like in faulty allegations or habitability issues that then need an attorney or going to court.I have heard of wise landlords using a guarantor service that pays the rent if the tenant stops paying for whatever reason.  

You would be the trustee.Keep in mind that a lawsuit would need to prove that you were negligent in some way and it caused harm to someone before you would have to pay any money.

For Habitable/Living spaces, there is a requirement for Natural Light equivalent to 8% of the floor area, and Natural Ventilation equivalent to 4% of the floor area.

If so, depending on what it shows it could cause harm to the value of the property.If you wanted to go full board, you could threaten him and consider discussing his integrity of the sale.

Landlord Obligations for Habitable Premises - The Basic California Law    Under the California Civil Code, landlords of a property must ensure that certain conditions are met which make the living space habitable and safe for potential lessees.