@Ashley Benning Welcome "Valley Girl".

I broke down and checked with my lending attorney. 

These are all such small and minor items - if you don't fix them, that sends the message to the tenant that you don't care about the unit and in-turn they won't care about keeping it maintained.It'd be a different story if each of these were presented separately after 8 months, but its a recent move-in so none of these issues should have existed to begin with.Also, if you rent with the mindset that if the water flows so who cares if the chain is broke on the toilet, they can lift the flap - your tenants will be complete garbage and the turnover of good tenants will kill any income.

Worst case scenario- I go broke and the house can be liquidated to pay for my kids college.But, again, I haven't lost sight of why I got into the game... specifically to pay off my mortgage and put my kids through school.

In July I start school and will start driving a dedicated route here in Texas so I can be home with my girls every night.

Is broke' yourself.  

Yup, I'd give the ex a call, assuming you broke up on amicable terms.

Just one girls thoughts.

I am now happily on my own and doing the best I can to keep my feet on the ground and figure out how I can make a good life for my girls and I.

A young girl and an old couple, the only two bidding, got into a bidding war.