This is common on the East coast but not sure if it is in CA or not. 

In addition, they advised that we could only use my wife income because she has been employed full-time the past 2 years.A little history: I worked in a bio-tech company in Southern California for 5.5 years (2011-2017)Started to pursue a Software Engineering degree in 2015 - today (half-time student)I got married in 2016, she wanted to move back to the east coast; so we moved to RTP, NC Jan 2017Left my job Jan 2017 to move and decided to take a year break to learn some more programming and expand my SE knowledge (In addition to my school work)Started looking for new work mid-2018, got two offers: one full time position and one W-2 contract position for a lot more money.

Hello All, I own a 6 unit apartment building in a town just 25 min outside of A major east coast city.

as to code violations we jsut get those form our title company.. evictions.. never went for those.. but i suppose you just have someone go in and check the doccets once a week and create your own spread sheet.when i was in Timber we put together our own data base since we could not get it from the county.but we went into each court house pulled Arial photogs and matched them to plat maps then to the assorssor information .. and did it by hand took over a year and about 30k in man time ( 1992)  but at the end of the day we had every parcel larger than 10 acres with visible timber not owned by a Mill.. from CA OR border to just south fo Seattle and from the top of coast range to the top of Cascades.. this gave us enough leads for work for decades.

I own and manage a 20 pad park in Mid-coast Maine.

I'm in Arizona but looking at SW Colorado, western NM.

Read more about it on my blog here: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/11179-full-time-dad-part-time-investor or see updates on Instagram @hyergin If it's in South western schools that baby should fly off the shelves if it's priced right. we are looking at a 1300 sq ft prop right now. 30k purchase, 50k rehab, 126k exit. never thought about the septic that's really interesting in this area of columbus. we encountered that on another flip we did up in westerville.

Occasionally, if they are repeat renters, I trade for gator, boudin or other fresh gulf coast food. 

But I guess I also look at how our deals on the west coast close..

I have a herd of them on the Western Side of PA.