I live in CA and had already had some reservations about becoming a landlord in CA due to horror stories from co-workers about how tenant sided the laws are and having those reservations confirmed with these eviction moratoriums.

See if you can provide cleaning services to an office a time or two in exchange for shadowing the office workers and observing.

I used to work in corporate as an accountant, and to be honest, because of the unethical practices (not necessarily illegal) that seem to be commonplace, this was one reason I ventured out on my own to go in business for myself.

The tenant is trying to "make" the puppy an ESA, with a letter from his Licensed Clinical Social Worker (but with a gmail account). in the letter, it recommended him to "make compliant to HUD".This is a house as our primary home that we had to rent out.

Even in jest (no link to the property even posted) constitute soliciting money and be illegal?

Tell them you will be accommodating to their schedule and that you'll be out while their workers are there.

I put people on the low end of the refinery worker totem pole in them. 

Hospital workers, and other essential services, retired folks who also have a pension, employees who can work from home, many government employees.

Well we’ve had a few disagreements while waiting on the loan documents to come in the mail and she stopped letting my workers come in to fix up on the house.

At this point, among other catastrophes, it's summer in SoCal and I really can't stand this heat nor do I especially want to put my co-workers/customers through this next year.