California has a horrible fiscal situation and anything may become a target.

UC building dept is horrible to deal with and their rent control is a nightmare.

If you’re using a PM to do the work for you I’d say your maintenance/get rent ready cost will be 1-2k, unless something horrible happened.

The quality of that service is typically fair to horrible.

It might be a small amount ( I do not know your liquidity and net worth, annual business or job income,etc.) but once things go bad your husband likely is going to get soured from doing investment for a long time.Remember it is not what you are paying but what you are getting for your money the QUALITY and not how CHEAP something is.I can go get a 3 dollar burger that tastes horrible.

Horrible single picture, hardly any description, classic!  

Even if the insurance reluctantly agrees, this is a bad relationship in the making....off to a horrible start that will only get worse

It’s still horrible.

I find that the potential sellers are either too paranoid to find (they hide from everyone fearing their creditors) or emotionally divorced from the property....they have already made up their mind to default and there is no way to impress upon them that that's a horribly bad decision.Some of what I experience is unique to Texas and Texas rules however.

Its had some renovations over the past few years but was painted horribly and staged even worse so it sat on the market for a while.