If not, she will eventually find a new place, stop paying rent, string you along, and then move out in the middle of the night leaving you with a vacancy, past due rent and most likely a mess and damage to the unit.  

-As to rent payment, in Florida, a tenant would either owe liquidated damages (as stated in the lease or would owe rent that accrues during the lease term until such time as the landlord is able to re-rent the property on their account.

Normally, if the policy values the loss on Replacement Cost, they will initially pay the loss at the Depreciated value, once the damaged area is rebuilt, then they pay the additional amount (up to the limit on the policy).   

Looking for a rental after 13 year, he may be in a bit of shock at the rental prices, but that's his problem.As for damage deposit, you can only keep money for damages that you know he did (ie anything since 2022). 

Let them leave, repair any damages they did (from their deposit) and get it rented to the next tenant after you find out a few things. 

We think the tenant might have purposely caused damage to the unit.

The reason for selling is because the home has been a money pit (major tenant damage) and a revolving door (tenants leaving).

Then we need to do a lot of education and damage control.Needless to say, there are many ethical and investor-friendly realtors out there (especially here on BP :).

This gives us a chance to look for damage and to check for things like sinks under faucets, toilets that run, loose cabinet doors etc.

Early termination fee, which is one month of rent plus the deposit, assuming there's no damages, and they walk away clean.2.