Cities/states can (and sometimes do) revise their eviction statutes to make it more difficult, time-consuming or expensive to evict.

I suspect when the quarantine ends and the held-back housing supply hits the market we'll see a dip in prices in the 2 to 4 months after that time... though there are a lot of factors that come into play that will dictate the actual outcome. (...consumer confidence, interest rates, local job growth, net population growth/loss, government restrictions, savings depletion, stock market growth, etc).

I am still short consumer spending and commercial non residential RE.

I feel one of the main factors for this is the time we are spending on activities that historically have not been very time consuming.

You only get the option fee.If the tenant does not acquire a loan then it would go back on the market to lease opt, or to just sell.

I've been contemplating if I should pause heavily paying down my student loans to save up for a down payment on a property to invest? My hopes are to speed up the process of paying down my debt...but I haven't found a...

I opted to use her and say said it would save me some money.

Our PM software (Appfolio) allows for rent to be paid by credit card (as does most consumer payment software like Cozy).I see a lot of people giving advice on their new higher qualifications and would ask how much vacancy they are willing to have to find an applicant that may never come along. 

Typically they are paid by the lender with funds that otherwise would have been spent on marketing and middle management sales staff, not by the consumer. 

And AB1482 only allows you to raise the rent "up to 5% plus the applicable Consumer Price Index (CPI) or 10%, whichever is lower."