There are already lawyers involved on both sides so the landlord would get bulldozed for playing tricks like that. When I lived in CA I had to help my friends

There are already lawyers involved on both sides so the landlord would get bulldozed for playing tricks like that. When I lived in CA I had to help my friends and family with lawsuits against some legitimately bad landlords (a meth head in one case, heroin in another, and frivolous eviction because they wanted to jack the rent up for a new tenant before the lease ended). While I was researching California Civil Code (not to mention what cities like SF and LA have stacked on top of it), the deck is completely stacked against property owners. Like it’s relatively trivial to exploit the law to live rent free for six+ months while a lawsuit is pending and then ride off into the hills and do it again with your next landlord. Fun fact, if you stay in a CA hotel for 30+ days you are legally a tenant and they have to sue for eviction if you don’t feel like leaving. Although I think AirBNB rentals are in general morally wrong I don’t think these laws are always fair either, and I would definitely avoid renting out property in CA.