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.

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.

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

Yet, I feel like a failure….

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. 

Default by TenantTenant will be in default (Default) if: (i) Tenant fails to pay any Monthly Rent by 7 days after Monthly Rent is due and does not cure the failure within 7 days of receiving written notice from Landlord; (ii) Tenant fails to pay any Additional Rent by 7 days after the Additional Rent is due and does not cure the failure within 7 days of receiving written notice from Landlord or; (iii) Tenant fails to comply with any other obligation or restriction in this Lease and does not cure the failure within 7 days of receiving written notice from Landlord.

Home insurance won't cover a lot of system failures like electrical.Home warranties are designed to make the warranty provider money; they are slow to respond, quick to reject claims, charge you a trip fee for every visit, use the lowest-cost vendors that provide quick-fix solutions, and are generally not worth the paper they are written on.