Why Your Best Tenant Just Left, and the San Diego Retention Playbook to Keep the Next One
Losing a good tenant is one of the most expensive events in a San Diego rental, and most owners never see the real bill. It is not just the vacancy, it is the turnover cost, the marketing, the screening, the make-ready, and the risk of replacing a proven tenant with an unknown one. The frustrating […]
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 or […]
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 is […]
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 an […]
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. In 2026, […]
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 down, […]
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 to […]
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 a […]
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 signal. This […]
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 the […]