Pacific Beach Rental Report: Is the Short-Term Rental Crackdown Creating a Long-Term Goldmine?
San Diego’s short-term rental crackdown did something few investors expected: it may have quietly made Pacific Beach *long-term* rentals more valuable. As the city caps and licenses vacation rentals, a slice of PB’s most desirable coastal inventory is being pushed out of the nightly market — and the owners and investors who pivot to long-term […]
Preventive vs. Reactive: How a $300 Inspection Saves a $15K San Diego Repair
The most expensive repair on a San Diego rental is almost always the one nobody saw coming. A slow leak behind a wall, a failing water heater, a hairline crack in a balcony support — each starts cheap and ends catastrophic, and each is usually invisible until it becomes an emergency. A routine property inspection […]
The Point Loma ADU Goldmine: Turning Your Backyard Into a $2,500/Month Rental
A detached accessory dwelling unit in the right Point Loma backyard can generate on the order of $2,500 a month in rental income while adding lasting value to the property — and California has spent the last several years rewriting its laws specifically to make building one easier. For a Point Loma owner sitting on […]
AB 1482 Decoded: Exactly How Much You Can Raise San Diego Rent in 2026
Raise the rent one percentage point too far in San Diego and you can hand your tenant a lawsuit, a rent rollback, and a damages claim. California’s AB 1482 — the statewide Tenant Protection Act — caps how much you can increase rent each year, and San Diego layers its own just-cause rules on top. […]
The 5-Point Tenant Screening Checklist That Survives a Fair Housing Audit in San Diego
The fastest way for a San Diego landlord to turn a vacancy into a lawsuit is an inconsistent tenant screening process. Fair housing law does not care whether you *meant* to discriminate — it cares whether you applied the same standards to every applicant and can prove it. A screening process that is rigorous, written […]
Wintering Your Vacation Rental: How to Fill Your Beach House from October to March with Corporate Tenants
Every San Diego beach-house owner knows the winter cliff: the summer Airbnb calendar is packed and profitable, and then October arrives, the nightly bookings thin out, and the same property that printed money in July sits half-empty through March. The fix is not to grind harder on short-term bookings in the off-season — it is […]
Downtown San Diego Condos: Are HOA Fees Killing Your Cash Flow? (A Case Study)
A downtown San Diego condo can look like a clean, low-maintenance rental on paper — until you run the HOA fee through the model and watch the cash flow collapse. For the analytical investor, the homeowners association fee is the single most underestimated line in a downtown condo deal, and it is the difference between […]
North Park Investor Report: Why The “Craft Beer Capital” is Attracting Tech-Worker Tenants
North Park has quietly become one of San Diego’s most resilient rental submarkets, and the reason is the tenant it attracts: a remote-capable, higher-income professional who wants walkability, character, and a craft-beer-and-coffee lifestyle more than a suburban garage. For the analytical investor, that demand profile — not the neighborhood’s hipster reputation — is the real […]
San Diego’s “Harassment” Ordinances: What You Can and Cannot Say to Tenants in 2026
In San Diego, a single frustrated text message to a tenant can become evidence in a retaliation or harassment claim. Between the City’s Residential Tenant Protections Ordinance and California’s broader tenant-protection laws, what a landlord can legally say and do to a tenant in 2026 is far narrower than most owners realize — and crossing […]
Security Deposit Shock: Navigating AB 12’s One-Month Cap Without Getting Burned
Since July 1, 2024, a California landlord can no longer collect more than one month’s rent as a security deposit on a new lease — furnished or unfurnished. That single sentence rewrote the risk math for every San Diego rental owner who used to lean on a fat deposit to cover damage, unpaid rent, and […]