Early one morning in September, two investigators with the California Department of Justice served a search warrant at a three-bedroom house on a residential street in Winnetka (owned by Paulette Moses).

Surprisingly, the city adopted their preliminary site plan via ordinance, so I'm having trouble figuring out what else could have been the show stopper.

It seems as if there is no "one stop shop" for finding a good manager after some preliminary digging.

So maybe take a bit more time to look in your area...Lennar is national so they may be doing the same near you...maybe not based on the market, but it can't hurt to investigate a bit more.As far as how to decide this now...your options are presented in light of them 'paying rent', which is fine IMO.

@forrest: Tampa comes up as a good location from my preliminary research, it is definitely not close to home but I do like the numbers@luke: my goal is to generate passive income for now with a property that appreciate over time.

To see if a property will be in the new flood hazard area, visit https://www.lojic.org/preliminary-firmsCould enhance or hurt your current property.

After some investigation, it appears that even the building itself can only be depreciated for 27.5 years and it's the fixtures and other items like parking areas, appliances, etc. that can be depreciated in shorter time periods. 

Maybe that would come back in a preliminary title search?

Bob Gillar Whether you like them or not, investigate homes that are managed by a couple of different PM companies in the area.

Then the transaction from B to C (you) is a totally separate transaction with title insurance.Before you close the title company taking care of the transaction / or the attorney as they use both in St Louis will provide you with a preliminary title showing all the problems they can find with title - the middle buyer is not going to be able to close with clouded title unless their contract says that they will buy with title defects, in which case if they are assigning the contract to you, would have you taking over their original contract.In a double close however there are usually 2 separate contracts and you need to read the one you are a party to so you can see what you agreed to in regards to marketable title.