Ha, rentals in San Diego a “Pain”? Dream on! I love the rental market here, it’s so slack. I can get a place in any area on the drop of a hat. Contrast that to where I grew up, where I had to take a crappy third floor apt right at a major railway crossing because that’s all there was!
I’m now a landlord in that same city and on a typical day there are less than 10 units for rent in the entire city! We get calls from people living on the damn street who can’t find a rental. Typically > 20 showings on every vacancy we have.
BTW, that’s what rent control gets you after a while. It’s such a broken system. We get to pick sweet tenants though.