She is very happy and my mother visits her often and is very satisfied with her impressions of the place. 

Moreover, with such a large proportion of the family's wealth held in permanent farming crops (and only a few different crops), we are very much at the mercy of mother nature and California politics.

So, now for the interesting part, the mother of tenant 1 calls me.

Last fall my mother-in-law passed and she had been the primary caregiver to her mother (my wife's grandmother), whom at 98 was still living independently in a condo she purchased some 20 years ago.

I met the new tenant and her mother and I asked the tenant if there was anything that she noted that could be addressed and outside of an internet issue with the company she said she loved it and then I spoke with her mom who was helping her move in and she could not stop praising me on all the work that was done and how nice it was and that "it was the nicest place they had seen".  

My credit and income would not get me the mortgage.Found a 2 unit so I could give my mother-in-law a place to live.

She was listing the house for her mother, who was in a nursing home. 

Everything you wear, eat or use has come from real estate, it's good old mother earth!

(He paid $900/month on his 2nd year but it went up $50 more when his mother moved in the middle of the lease term.)

I also pay her utilities.The thought was that my mother (who's not working) will live in the house as long as she needs to and the house will be mine after that (my mother is 70).