Best advice is to join or visit a local REIA meetup and start shaking hands.

Indeed, the FAIR ordinance is anything but fair to non-corporate landlords, seemingly punished for investing in rental houses to generate income as an alternative to stocks and bonds.A handful of opportunists likely could learn to exploit these new rules, preying on otherwise law-abiding landlords to obtain legalized shake-down payments.

But same theory give them a second chance and many times I was negative cash flow I would rent for less than their mortgage to get them going again.. did well over hundred of those and I can count on one hand how many actually were able to totally cure and buy the home back.. 90% of them defaulted in the first 18 months..

How are folks navigating 1031 and high financing rates vs taking capital gains hit and having pure cash on hand to redeploy elsewhere (in my case, rebuilding on my primary residence)?

Local, apple, Cuban and praying hand bananas.  

My Brother in law has a company that does this and hand full of realtors have him on speed dial 90% is pipe burst done in a few hours 7 to 8k per..

I would say our government’s a little more friendly and hands off but the Californians a certainly changing that. 

On the other hand, passive strategy will buy more expensive house at a nicer neighborhood.

I’ve house hacked for the last 7 years and acquired a handful of properties this way.

The tenant used an online maintenance request system to request a handful of maintenance issues for the first 6 to 8 months.