There was a leak and about $10k in water damage done.

If they are in an upstairs apartment and leak, the damage can extend to the downstairs unit.

The potential damages would likely be less than what it would cost to litigate, especially on a smaller deal.

Foreperson: “your honor, let me get this straight, the plaintiff lost the defendant’s money, didn’t tell them, ignored their calls, and left their voice mail box full so no one could reach them, and now the plaintiff is asking me to award them damages because the defendant complained about it?”  

If their rejection results in additional damages, they are financially responsible.Do not enter the home when children are home alone.

Unfortunately, appears you've gotten exactly what you deserved due to your poor screening.Hopefully, you've learned from this painful lesson.Hire a well-screened landlord-tenant attorney and evict them and sue for damages.

Some of our properties that were cash flow negative initially now have the best cash flow thanks to rents going up in these great locations, and very little turnover, vacancy loss or tenant damage, etc. 

Then you do floors because you can't do base and case until the floors are in and going full costs of paint will just get damaged during the balance of the rehab (although I often complete the ceiling paint in total).

So the property I bought had previous termite damage and we are having it repaired and treated however.

Current building code requirements and local amendments should be considered forrebuilding the fire-damaged portion of the residence.The Engineer shall have no liability to the Owners, or to others for the acts or omissions of theContractor or any other Persons performing work on the project, or failure of the Contractor tocarry out the work in accordance with this letter, except where specifically inspected andapproved by the engineer and discovery of defect is possible within the normal ability or standardof care for the industry.This report is based on a diligent visual inspection of the referenced areas.