Check your docs to see if you can begin foreclosing for failure to start repairs.

If no violations are found during a rental inspection, the L&I Commissioner may delay the next required rental inspection one additional year from three years to four years.Change the fee assessed for a second rental re-inspection from $25 to $125.Add language reiterating that regular rental inspections are a condition of a City rental business license.Add a civil fine of $500 per rental unit for failure to register/obtain a rental business license.Add a civil fine of $250 for each violation of the housing code if the violation relates to a rental property or a vacant property.

I'll bet if you run some searches on him in advance, you'll find a history of him doing people wrong, walking away from contractual obligations and failure to pay.

Failure by the owner to comply with any part of the law is an infraction that can result in a fine of $200.00 per violation.Full article here: http://www.aoausa.com/magazine/?

Take a good look in the attic and see if there are any signs of failure.

If your lease required truth in answering the questions, failure to enforce such a provision could cause you to have waived a number of other rights and obligations under the lease, as well as open you up to liability.From a business perspective, do you truly want a tenant like this?

Failure is not an event.

However there is a condition ( failure to pay the loan/transfer of title ) in this trust, where once met, the mortgagor loses his 100% equitable and legal interest to the mortgagee.

We explain to the tenant that if they fail to notify us of a repair (especially any type of water leak even a small one) they will be responsible for the full cost of any additional damage to the property caused by failure to report. 

Make em work for their failure to honor their lease.