The main lesson from this book is: Good chess players know their next 5 moves, grandmasters know their next 15 moves!

Since these are private there are sometimes very old covenants that were recorded before HOAs were common, and so today some of them are unenforced, and possibly completely unenforceable since they've been violated for years without action being taken...that can only be known by seeing what it contains and who is protected by it.

It's not perfect, but it gives me a place to start.I checked with my attorney and he felt it was sufficient to protect me. you may want to do the same. 

You can talk to tenants, share how you "FEEL" all you want, including saying you'd like to not do ___, or your preferences, that is called Free Speech and is constitutionally protected.

Unfortunately lending guidelines do not jive well with Gov Brown's overly protective tenant laws.

@Krystal Ahn, I think what you're probably referring to is placing the property into an entity like and LLC where you are the member of the LLC for liability protection. 

If you are trying to protect real assets and you don't sign PGs then an LLC might make sense. 

This was done to protect senior citizens on fixed incomes from being forced to sell their homes due to unaffordable property tax increases.So now, the city assessor tracks the SEV, but homeowners are taxed based upon the Taxable Value.

My personal opinion is that you don't NEED an LLC for one property, especially if you're carrying sufficient insurance to protect yourself and the property. 

If it was painted with a semi-gloss enamel, it would be better protected from water.