Tenant rights are so strong in CA that I prefer to leave my home vacant when I travel for half the year, despite having locals asking if their friends can rent

Tenant rights are so strong in CA that I prefer to leave my home vacant when I travel for half the year, despite having locals asking if their friends can rent it for that duration. It would only take a single deadbeat choosing to not pay rent, trash the place, and refuse to leave to make it all not worth my trouble. In another state where tenant rights are weaker I'd collect rent and kick the tenant out on their ass the same month they stop paying rent. CA is a great state to be a tenant, not so great for being a landlord. Developments like Airbnb also change the game drastically. Now you can get rental income without even taking the risks of tenants rights by keeping the terms short enough. Are Airbnb rentals considered "empty" by these metrics?