I do know San Diego is pretty strict against short term rentals so obviously look up what their regulations are.You mentioned a granny flat and splitting the house, so if you're going to be having some sort of shared walls it may be best to put that in your listing as I have seen some people get negative remarks by not mentioning that the house is shared with the owner or some other tenant.As well as lining up two to three excellent cleaning crews, the easiest way to ruin your profit is to start receiving negative reviews for cleanliness and or falsely advertising what your place really is.

Sort of lame really to be honest, but if you skim through it you may end up with some nuggets that will help you sand the floors!

This sort of thing does happen though.

If you can do garages or fenced and or secured parking of some sort then you should be fine

Sort of like the MLS, you have to dig deep to find the real deals.

The below image is NOT from Fannie Mae, nor is it in any way related to your OP question, it's just a fun picture I thought I'd share.Link: How Lender Overlays Prevent Mortgages.Fannie Mae will allow you to have up to 10 financed properties without issue.

About 50% of investors in the US have real estate in a LLC of some sort.

Sure going after them is satisfying in a crusading for what's right sort of way, but how much time (and money) is your client willing to throw at this issue?

What sort of deal should we do?

This is not my fault as I paid 3k in total for him to fix everything and have it all running and surely the system should have been cleaned and some sort of pressure cut off should of been installed?