Internal gutters are troublesome and can cause a lot of hidden damage when not maintained properly for years.

Appears that he redone the ceiling and moisture damage in baseboards).

Damage the unit, could not evict. 

Purchase price: $270,000 Cash invested: $60,000 2nds property is a fixer upper which will require new flooring, paint, teardown of bathrooms upstairs and kitchen due to water damage as well as roof and siding down the line.

Sadly the damage is done and there needs to be a long-term solution and not more foot dragging and finger pointing. 

When you run credit checks especially it shows up as a hard hit, damaging credit, and could bring legal issues.

A relocation due to family emergencies will probably not fall in this category unfortunately.As far as your security deposit goes...technically it should be used for damages but if there are none upon move-out then yes they will likely use that to cover the early termination fee.

Did they suffer some damages?

@Richie Thomas go the thrift store, Habitat for humanity restore, Craigslist route

So Landing pages.If you are a no body.. and all people see of you on the net is ONE landing page, you are doing damage to your credibility score.Now flip the coin around.