So I'm just fishing around for ideas on what others do.

This world is nuts!

I have a dog and 2 cats and pretty much have always had dogs and cats so I like animals (we also have a plethora of additional animals: snakes, lizards, fish, frog, tortoise, millipedes, etc. : we are almost a zoo).The tenant that I made give up their "Emotional Support Animal" violated the lease as soon as they had a dog stay at the unit without notifying us. 

There is not much left in the unit but there is some things like a fish tank, mattress, and loads of garbage.

Your monthly nut is probably less than 800 and you can live free with about 200 positive cash flow.  

Russell Brazil It just seems nuts to me that agents would be submitting add’l offers )0 days or so into a short sale......potentially booting the contracted buyer.

Sounds like you are fishing in all the right places. 

Yep, every condo board is different, some are a little nuts and some are real nuts!

My wife is on the board of one of the HOAs, but both HOAs are using the same property management company to handle the accounting and day to day property management issues.The question for this post is, can some recommend a property management company that will handle a small number of units - either 14 or 7, and work with an HOA and is in Oakland.Here's the background -- the current property management company apparently only manages much larger complexes -- 100 units and up -- and so is not doing a good job with this small fish of a property.

If no other offers exist for this place he's fishing you for a better deal, and I'd tell him to shove it.