Since then she’s hired a lawyer because she felt that it’s unfair that shes only getting 30 days notice. she supposed to move out on the 26th of November she wants him to use the security deposit as last month rent but my friend runs the risk of the place being trashed if he does accept this will he still be able to fight for more money if the place does end up trashed and is there anything he can do to fight her to get the last months rent 

.: I've never hired an EA or CPA before and need advice on vetting them to avoid being taken advantage of.

If so, as mentioned above, I would probably hire a PM if you do not want to run it yourself. 

Automate property management or hire a property manager.

I hope you learn from this and hire a quality PM for the next time.I would try two things, simultaneously:1.

It makes sense to hire help to shorten tenant turnover time.  

You can track income and expenses consistently using software or spreadsheets.As you scale, if bookkeeping isn't fun, consider hiring a bookkeeper for a couple hundred bucks per month.

I have a friend who has concrete stain in his multimillion dollar home and it looks good and is virtually indestructible.   

The person hired a company to clean up my 3rd house and gave me a surprise of 400 USD bill for the cleaning when it should be at maximum 150/200.

The roofing company I hired also does restoration for homes.