Don't overcomplicate things in your mind and just take action.

But since they didn't take immediate action to secure the unit, I would approach them about splitting the costs. 

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since the estate did not take action of some sort.

The tenant was out in less than 3 months.As Russell mentioned, there is no magic language in the lease that will make eviction easy, but you can take some actions to make sure you don’t get to that point. 

Very action oriented and nobody there is trying to pitch you on anything.

Most of our exhaustion comes from our emotional actions rather than our physical ones.

The idea of saving for a specific action is a middle class mentality, nothing wrong, but not an efficient way to become financially free.The idea is to save to utilize the funds to invest in assets, so those assets pay for your expenses. 

Can a "friend" arrange notices/actions?

Depending on what the leases states with regard to appliances should dictate your action.