Does the city or building department not post the property with a big red  stop work poster ?

For example, in Kansas they have the 14/30 (basically you will rectify the situation in 14 days and if not you have 30 days to depart i.e. before you can file eviction).

The company is in a huge crisis - he said the entire accounting department walked out while he worked there.

Do you know the city people for example at building/zoning department? 

Is it the CA department of real estate?

Avantstay has a whole licensing department.

You can’t go to the Lands department and ask.  

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I would guess many government workers are renters like law enforcement and state department as they rotate in and out of the field offices to DC.

I would also try to contact the code compliance department for advice.