It was a $450 repair overall.So, now I'm wondering if obesity is a protected class. 

Im the most patient person I know so I feel I might be wasting valuable time on people who don't deserve my time.Is there a general rule?

Bakersfield & Kern County has lots of opportunities to make money if you are patient & learn how to create good deals.

You need to train your tenants.It takes some time but if you are patient you can have your tenant make a deposit every month.They can also buy a cashier's check and send it on the mail but sometime you get the BS that they already sent it and it may be lost on the mail. 

They have been very patient with me, a newbie.

Totally understand things taking time to fix and we were trying to be patient.

I've been through this and I would suggest landlords to be very, very, very, very, very, very, patient in screening their patients.

You just have to be patient, be picky, and be willing to lower the rent.

Just be patient and help her understand your vision for the future and why house hacking is the first step.

Just make sure you do it right.If faced with a request for a reasonable accommodation for a companion or service animal (they're different) I'd have a form that I'd give them, with the definition of disability, and the basic law that the need for the animal must be related to their disability and/or trained to perform a particular task (service animals), and have them give it to their primary care provider (doctor) and have them fax it to me from their office after they've completed it, verifying that this patient meets the definition and has a related need.