By sending a check, in many states, if the tenant cashes the check they are de facto agreeing with your damage assessment and will have little ground to dispute your accounting.  

I'm in a group for STRs in Delaware, and we had one lady get scammed out of around 4K.

Quote from @Oliver De Ausen: I have a Bennah Oaks investment as well.

Quote from @Wilson Pereira De Oliveira: I have the same question about section 8, I am tempted to buy some properties in St.

My properties are in Delaware County, PA and mostly 3 bedrooms and 1,152 sqft.

I am in the Philadelphia / PA / DE / NJ area but for the purposes of sharing experiences, anywhere is great. 

But the state (Delaware) just enacted a 4.5% tax effective in January. 

I would tell folks at the time with 30k brand new homes that Lehigh was probably one of the cheapest places in US if not the world to live everything considered US medical and fire and police etc etc and no state income tax.So here we are today de ja vu all over again with hundreds of investors stuck with half built houses and a the vast majority of all these were spec for rental purposes not to live in..

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Cheers, it's ballpark like algebra.You can't easily solve this:a + b + c + d + e = fBut you can easily solve this:44 + b + 23 + 13 + 48 = 155And, once you have solved that, you will likely be able to solve one with 2 unknowns, and work from there.