Get an insurance adjuster on the scene and report the incident to the police.

I didn’t call the police that day because I texted her and thought we had an understanding she would pay for the damages.

I recommended talking to the neighbors about it and then calling the police if needed. 

@Sagar Joshi how many times has your tenant called the police on the neighbor downstairs?

Now, it's starting to sound like a promotion, LOL.Verbal judo is a technique, often taught to police officers/law enforcement types that is designed to ask questions to clarify a matter, it may be used to let the other person understand that their point of view or logic isn't logical or appropriate.

If mom had no spouse, the living children (in the simplest scenario -- no dead children who have descendants) own the property by operation of law.

Now she’s asking for a police report. 

Before a recession, its better to invest for healthy income from people who wont lose their jobs (police, nurses, mail-deliverers) at mid-low rent.

Courts are backed up and it takes a minimum on a "non contested" eviction at least 45-60 days before a lockout from the local police. 

I currently have a rental in Missouri that works decently well...except that it was raided by the FBI within the first 3 months of the new tenant living it in (my neighbors had a fit), a retired police officer, and his spouse an accountant.