I would be happy to share the contact information for one of the local TD loan officers.

Does the landlord have an office by chance?

Get involved in community work if you can especially with the police dept. 

The construction cost has been soaring in the last 3 years in the Bay area (I work in the corporate construction industry and our project management office is forecasting 10% fee escalation in all of the MEP trades in this year).

Then you could sell the lot, or try to get that 1 lot rezoned into office (or commercial, but I doubt it will fly).House:  man, that thing is so full of ugly tile.  

The construction cost has been soaring in the last 3 years in the Bay area (I work in the corporate construction industry and our project management office is forecasting 10% escalation in all of the MEP trades in this year).

As Donnell said I would recommend you go to the free seminar the sherrif office holds every month.

Offer to take it to the recorder's office yourself!

We even discussed that if he doesn't have a chance to submit the taxes on time and ends up submitting an extension (he was supposed to be moving offices), he will have to run the numbers, and if numbers show we owed anything, we would send a check  to IRS before April 18, 2016, and then IRS would reimburse us (if there's balance left) once he gets a chance to complete the taxes and submit.

You have to find the local office and request lists when you want them.