Only problem is the drug related violence down there.

It is simple math to figure out if you should lease or buy but the big difference when you ask the dealer to delineate the numbers is what they call the Money Factor. 

California also has the highest number of homeless, and drug addicts, sleeping in the parks and roadways, openly doing drugs on the city streets and parks, etc.

And she is still getting drug down with negativity. 

You could have a clean owner occupIed block of homes then go two blocks up and see open drug deals in the daylight everyone drunk and prostitution .a lot of cities are like that .

People selling drugs can be evicted immediately.

People were selling and using drugs in a library parking lot at night.

Mostly they are into drugs and alcohol.

If in the event you do have a very high external risk profile that might attract a real lawsuit (a drug addled teenager driver) then acquire the level of umbrella insurance commensurate with your real risk (not phantom risk from some imagery "predator" instilled in your mind from a group scare monger selling you an LLC template).I would go even one step further and say an LLC in practical effect may actually INCREASE your risk profile as it could easily lull you into a state of complacency running your operation both in a careless and reckless manner.

But, it didn't take marketers to convince me that I didn't want to raise my family in a neighborhood where seeing passed out drug abusers sleeping in business landscaping was a normal thing.