The feds have forgiven close to $100 million in debt incurred by former Corinthian Colleges Inc. students left stranded by that company’s 2015 closure.Millions of students have flocked to for-profit campuses and online programs in search of credentials of questionable value in recent years.

ANY title company can provide (frequently for free) a monthly list of NODs and NTS.I ask for an electronic email distribution and that could be fed into Excel

The house looks to be vacant (grass grown over, gutters in disrepair, no answer at the door and other signs). 

This would include grass, tenant issues, possible handyman work, snow shoveling, etc.

Plus the wife and I ,both native Californians are pretty fed up with California. 

I agree with the idea of letting them stay, adding the pet deposit and socking the money away because in the end, this can be a challenge to take care of the odor.On the other hand, if the contractor is not used to cats even one dirty litter box can cause a significant ammonia odor (cats consume a very high protein diet and thus produce a high urea content urine).  

Read Garrett Sutton's books about starting and running an LLC for more details.To open a bank account in your LLC's name, you will need an EIN number form the feds.  

What I'm seeing is many asset classes have lousy yields because the Fed has kept rates artificially low for way too long. 

Sept 20th comes and goes and I get a message that the tenant did not pay and the PM wants to know if I want to file a FED!

I am estimating about $40K in rehab costs including cost to fill in a pool in the backyard and convert to grass.