If a claim is to be made, the landlord has 30 days to send a detailed list of claims against the deposit by certified mail to the tenants forwarding address or last known address.The tenant then has 15 days to respond in writing if they disagree with the claims at which time the procedure may be negotiated or move to a court, normally the landlord institutes a suit with legal fees.If the tenant does not give a forwarding address then the legal address stipulated as such in the lease is used.

Be clearer on terms/procedures?

Summary ejectment procedures must now be handled in district court rather than magistrate court necessitating hiring an attorney to evict a lease option tenant for breach.

If you're trying to actually ge the property, learn the redemption/auction procedures.

Any differences in eviction procedures to be followed with a co-signer? 

I would write Standard Operating Procedures: which is basically writing down the way in which you will do things in your business.For me, this made me think critically about ever step of the process.

But this is why I was so harsh in my response before, because I made the mistake of thinking that this was the standard operating procedure everywhere.

Depending on how you set up that initial agreement you may have additional procedures that should have been followed to legally regain possession. 

In California:I put a down payment for a rental property security deposit as asked by the property owner to secure the rental and continue with section 8 housing inspection procedures. 

I don't know who panishes this, but there is a standard procedure.