[SDNative2]

My experience with the school district and living around there is buy on the West side if you can afford it. When I lived there, I saw fewer (house) rentals and the landscaping on the west seemed to be better generally. Curie is superior.

[SDNative2]

Depending upon zoning, you can get away with less square footage per lot. I have a lot zoned RM-1-1, over 7500 sq ft., and I can split into 3 parcels because one side is an alley.

You really need to go to the City of SD Planning Dept. and verify for yourself. Actually, go three separate times, get names, and take the best two out of three answers. If you’re lucky, you might just get something in writing.

[SDNative2]

My tenants installed something illegal against code–and their lease–on my rental property. Something that anyone within a number of residences would have heard. I subsequently received a City administrative citation/fine, and my tenants had to remove it. Interestingly, a few weeks later, my elderly cancer-ridden neighbor adjacent to the rental learned that someone had reported her property for multiple code violations. This, even though the neighbor did not report them. A very mean thing to do to a senior citizen living in an old house in an old neighborhood. I’m guessing I know who started the drama…

[SDNative2]

FWIW, (am not a lawyer, don’t give legal advice, different areas attract different tenant types), consider this recent SFR tenant story in a “good rental area of the City”:
1. Personal tenant screening is important. Really important.
2. Property management companies get paid once they put a tenant in your rental.
3. IF you absolutely believe that you must use a PM company to screen your tenant pool, be sure to take the time to personally repeat the exact same screening that you just paid your PM to do.
4. In this pro-tenant state, professional tenants are on speed-dial to the tenants’ rights centers and know how to abuse the gray areas of CA tenant/landlord law and break legitimate lease agreements.
5. Don’t do a 12-month lease in California; it’s security for the bad tenant you’re eventually going to get one day…
6. Do a month-to-month lease: it’s security for you…what tenant wants to move after a month?
7. If you can’t stomach the insecurity of a monthly lease, do a 3-month trial period, then go month-to-month.
8. A tenant can sign/initial, line-by-line, a CAR lease agreement and then break it the next day without repercussion.
9. As long as a tenant pays their rent on time and isn’t doing any known criminally illegal act on your property, a judge may not care that a tenant is breaking ANY other tenet of your lease.
10. Consider joining San Diego County Apartment Owner’s Association and take advantage of their free/low-cost legal presentations. You just may learn the same thing attending those seminars that the excellent but expensive SD landlord lawyer(s) will tell you…

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