As the bill is written at the date of this post, that would mean if you have a rental, you MUST allow pets, no exceptions, regardless of species, breed, size, etc. and you would not be allowed to ask about pets on rental applications.

There are exceptions that are few and far between (like if you were moved to another area by your work), but for the most part it’s only possible to have one at a time.

Some kind of strange circumstance that requires it?

No exceptions.

I don’t even know what that means, regarding ‘state level’.I totally agree about how title insurance was issued under these circumstances.

I would close the radius that @Joe Scaparra mentioned of 10 miles from the Capital being California or premium pricing to about 4 miles, and even within that radius there are pockets of exception.  

In my experience sellers don’t disclose financials until under contract except maybe a rough pro-forma that I don’t trust anyway.

For my projects, I buy all the “finishes” which are pretty much anything you can see with the naked eye (except for paint, which I just give the contractor the color codes).

Running lines through a 70+ yr old, 6800 sq ft building & trying not disturb the tenants too much was very time consuming but I covered every nook & cranny except for the allowed exclusion of bathrooms & closets ONLY.

Probates season exceptionally well, so there will be gold a year back especially if your market is bullheaded in the first 30 days but weak in terms of follow-up as leads age.