The one who owns the house will normally dictate who will report the activity on their return.

If the room is a mess when she leaves or she's not paid part of her rent, then remove that as you normally would from the deposit and return the rest to her. 

You can recover damages from a security deposit, but you cannot recover normal wear and tear.

When accelerated your reviews are completed in  business 10 days which adds up especially since you rarely obtain a billing statement without at least one round of comments and normally multiple are required.

Your first partnership should be on equal footing.

@Andrew CosmeYou should close just as if it was a normal sale and get a title company to create the loan docs, get title insurance and sell you the property.I strongly recommend you go through a title company and do not do a closing that was based on docs found online etc.

The numbers are normalized to the ARV and the math doesn’t care.Lastly, if you are not borrowing your costs, or can somehow avoid sales commissions, then of course you can pay more, and you can’t use this rule of thumb.

If this is something you are trying to unload to free up some capital or time, then it may just be worth figuring how much furniture you have, assigning a cost, then see how long it would take at the normal cashflow for that furniture to pay for itself and start making the new owner money.

One thing that might be causing an issue is that the house has a cesspool (normal for this area) that's less than 100 feet from the well, so due to FHA standards we can't sell to FHA buyers, just buyers with conventional financing or cash. 

I am not here to save anybody, I am simply telling the youngster here's a hand up not a foot down.