Proper maintenance includes, but is not limited to: changing heating & air filters on a regular basis; not flushing anything in toilets other than toilet paper (including "flushable" wipes); using proper plugs and extension cords in outlets; and other such events."

Your $200-300/mo in cash income will be wiped out on your tax returns by the property depreciation.  

Spray on the surface and wait 2-3 hours, then wipe clean. 

thank U for claifying  having been in the Timber business for many years last thing you want is someone trying this on their own.not only the tree falling but mangling them selves with the chain saw. their is a very robust art to downing treesin our work a day world we were working with softwood  Doug Fir Cedar Pine .. some redwood so those babies were 100 to 140 foot tall.and a good feller could drive a nail they were so acurate at dropping them.. but most anyone who has worked in that line of work is missing digets or got maimed somehow.. my partner had a log roll on him and those things weight thousands of pounds crushed his foot. 

Or babies-daddy did ___ .......

I am not personally familiar with California real estate law, but typically homes that sell at a tax sale can sell for just the back taxes owed, and the actual mortgage is wiped out and nothing is owed or collected on it.

Because we are new, we are taking baby steps in learning and would like to meet with other investors from Newfoundland here on Biggerpockets and even face to face.

My brother is divorced, has a fiance who lives a state away and they have a baby.

So when the roof needs to be replaced, that wipes out approximately 2.5 years of cash flow.

Wipe their hands clean and now it's all mine?