We made a nice little nest for them out of towels, and large dog bed, and cardboard.

He didn't need the money and had a soft heart, and had this really weird fear of vacancies, even though vacancies gave me the opportunity to raise rents exponentially with new tenants.I'd give an option B, if you can afford it. 

I first would start soft, with having a conversation with him.  50% chance he will allow for a resolution. 

Hard inquiry and Soft Inquiry.

When someone comes in too soft, with no real action, the families suffer later because it was a soft entry intended to gain trust and then the real hard sell always comes later.

The market for FHA priced homes is white hot ($600K ish in Nor Cal) and the market above that is fairly soft until you hit the luxury market.   

My experiences with septic systems were not negative.As to wells, if you've got water flow, you're issues would be pump problems. 

She said she was so scared a snake was in the room, that she ran out, shut the door and put a towel under the door, stayed in bedroom, put a towel under that door and googled pictures of snake poop all night because she kept the lights on all night and couldn’t sleep.

Being too soft-hearted with tenants usually doesn't work out well. 

We were still fairly inexperienced at that point, and when the tenant moved out, the rental market was a bit soft and we would have had to lower the rent.