It's been a while and I realize I've been posting a lot less, but I came to the opinion that THERE ARE LOTS OF YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE A WASTE OF SKIN and IT'S VERY POSSIBLE TO FAIL AS A PARENT through my experience as a teacher.The worst failure as a parent that I ever saw in my position was a Greek national lottery winner.

No question a sub 2 failure opens a big can of worms and can lead to all sorts of issues of the legal variety.. you start missing payments and your sellers credit gets trashed you are going to have issues. 

I'm not sure what law are in your state so can't comment on whether failure to pay the deposit is sufficient grounds for eviction but I would suspect it's not.

In the future, do a court records search at https://casesearch.courts.state.md.us/casesearch/If you had done that, you would have seen they have 8 failure to pay rent cases against them.

Yet, I feel like a failure….

Failure is not an option in anything that I put my time and money into. 

There should have been a plan-B from the start, that seems like failure #1 to me in this and a STRONG question of the experience and capability for this sponsor.

In Washington County, Maryland, if my Lease Contract says all charges owed are considered rent, if my tenant paid their base rent but not maintenance fees and water bills owed, can i file against the tenant for failure to pay rent?

@Chrissy Gray- It sounds like the attorney is setting the father up for failure.   

Any strategy that comes with no money down increases risk of failure.