If he's going to pay her rent, why wouldn't he pay her little $6000 student loan to prevent her from defaulting a student loan?

A 3-year lease is no gift to landlords as it prevents increase in rents for three years, results in more early terminations than a one-year term, and if you get a bad tenant - 3 years is a lifetime. 

Theres a reason they choose to live in certain areas.We also have Travis Air Force base which provide good tenants.

It sucks but this is probably a learning lesson to add verbiage into your contract moving forward to prevent this from happening with future contractors. 

Spring is in the air. 

I have been doing my own personal research on this matter and came across a few things; such as FHA loans, possibly leveraging my good credit score to get business credit and then use  it as a down payment on a property, ofcourse hard money lenders,  air bnb, and e.t.c... 

If only to prevent them from 'rinsing and repeating' with other poor landlords....

You can make minor adjustments based on the type of appliances (dishwasher, clothes washer and dryer, air conditioning, etc.) and the size of the rental.

Not a chance in hell.......I see 2 options......(1) Belt sand it down, re-stain and seal it...... charge a reasonable fee for that..... probably $300-500 max(2) Charge them $300-500 for the damage, but replace all of the counters with better materials and eat the cost now, but prevent the issue again in the future..... horrible counter tops for the main sectio in a kitchen..

Hi David,@Olivia Radziszewski had a really good point, scoping the sewer is a good way to prevent huge unforeseen costs (cost the owner before me $5k to replace the pipe to the house.)