Acquiring property is a rather involved process which is rather difficult to do accidentally. If one wants to avoid all of those challenges, it's rather easy to

Acquiring property is a rather involved process which is rather difficult to do accidentally. If one wants to avoid all of those challenges, it's rather easy to simply not buy houses which one doesn't intend to occupy. If one already finds themselves facing those challenges, one could also stop being a landlord by selling the house, and avoid them in the future. I hear the property market is pretty hot in SF, so selling the house doesn't seem like it would be an enormous challenge.