If the house has galvanized plumbing, the pipes could be completely blocked up and ruined.

I was originally leaning towards route 3, but am concerned about the prospect of the washer developing a leak and ruining the hardwood floors in the entire living area.

However, if you stop paying his mortgage then you will ruin his credit. 

We ask him to leave at the end of the lease.Another tenant left his windows open in a heavy rainstorm, all his clothes and my carpeting and wooden floors were ruined.

Most tenants paying below market rent keep their mouth's shut about small maintenance items because they don't want to ruin the deal they have.

that is really the main metric you can use.. the turnkey companies can only manage the properties but they cannot be in the assets 24 /7 and you get a bummer tenant and you now have an asset that does not perform as expected.. its not the turn key company its the Tenant that is the main cog in this.Also I have seen very poor owners over the years that have no business or clue how to be rental property owners.. they do not know or cannot imagine how others live and they freak out when some little thing happens and will bow their back on tenant issues only to have said tenant leave and create a vacancy.. and any vacancy is going to cost you money and ruin your numbers for that year.

Honestly I don't really care if it's just a 25 dollar recovery (which would be $75 after a case), I just need all the money back that I am owed and I'm willing to go to court over it.Here is the explanation, via text message, verbatim in full:50 for breach of lease agreement one extra day stay. 48.97 for electricity. 25 cleaning trash removal left in can when you should have done it trash night and i had to remove and deal with it. 30 for new pan and utensils for what you did not clean and ruined the frying pan. 25 for further cleaning of stove (grease) microwave (filthy) and other general cleaning of your mess.

If a tenant ruined some of them they were easy to replace.Gail

Go to www.narpm.org and search their directory.If you make a mistake and hire a bad Property Manager, it can ruin you for life.

I didn't feel like ruining her career because of some bad clients.