Anytime you have to add more instructions/sections to a lease agreement to explain to an ADULT how to use something, you are asking for trouble and proving the point that sometimes we credit our tenants with more responsibility than they may deserve. 

However, major crimes are not cases that deserve a second chance, especially when it leaves my property and other tenants vulnerable.

Have her pay rent, then refund the deposit as she deserves.

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Your plans sound perfect.I disagree with you on your idea, though, that tenants somehow may deserve a break because if they could manage their money, they'd buy their own home.  

I'm really trying to avoid hiring a lawyer, but I also want to get the money me and my wife deserve.

Tenants deserve not to be deceived by the person they rent from.

As a prior renter, I would have appreciated much more frequent responsiveness, but I was also (I now know) a fantastic renter and deserved that kind of responsiveness.  

YOU deserve the fresh start.  

They don't like people using this law who don't deserve to, either.Here is the actual law:following text is from this http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/documents/huddoc?