It is my belief that San Diego currently has the least LL friendly regulation (COVID related) in the country (evictions can only be for health and safety items - tenants can currently break the lease with impunity but in less than 60 days they will pay for their violations (assuming no extension)).  

If John becomes aware of this tendency in himself (it’s human nature, after all), then perhaps he can start looking at his investments from another viewpoint, gain an understanding of other options from reputable sources, and examine why his strategy might be wrong.

Possible health issues / lost job, etc.Instead of waiting for this to go to auction I was thinking of reaching out to the couple personally to try and work out a deal.There are obviously multiple avenues I could go.

Possible health issues / lost job, etc.Instead of waiting for this to go to auction I was thinking of reaching out to the couple personally to try and work out a deal.There are obviously multiple avenues I could go.

No matter what kind of car you roll up in, clothes you wear, how you speak, how you gesture everything may be interpreted because sometimes that is what we humans do.Some will see it just as you fear as the rich greedy SOB landlord here to collect pennies from the minions. 

You want to get out of hard money as fast as humanly possible regardless of your investment strategy (BRRRR, flip, lease-to-own, STR, live-in flip).

The family in the inhabited unit was on a month-to-month lease until a couple of months ago, at which point I had my attorney send them a 30-day notice of nonrenewal of lease.The tenants are effectively ignoring the nonrenewal notice, and my attorney has reached out directly to these tenants a number of times in order to offer them more time to vacate, as they are a little older, aren't in the best physical health, and have an adult son for whom they care.My attorney is communicating with the tenants on my behalf, exclusively, as I wanted to be as legally cautious as possible.The tenants are not responding to my concession to allow more time to vacate (they asked for an additional six months - unreasonable - I countered with two months), and they still claim to my attorney that we have a valid lease, despite there being a valid nonrenewal notice having been issued.

@Ebony Bankston so not a prison a mental health facility is harder.

The clerk is only human and may give you wrong information if they misunderstand your question.It sounds like your goal is simply to search records or obtain a list of party names/mailing addresses of certain court record types.

In San Diego, you can currently only evict for health and safety.