., if you let them get behind, you'll end up having to kick them out - even if it's amiable - and you'll end up using their deposit for rent and have none left for damages.Honestly, their financial problems are deeper than anything that is your problem, and they are about to make it yours.  

Regarding the dishwasher, the easiest thing to do may be to just replace it, but I'll gladly consider any other creative ideas.Thanks for any advice, I'm scratching my head here and this experience is definitely dampening my enthusiasm for diving deeper into real estate investing.

As depressing as that might be it is only lighting a deeper fire under my butt to get out and find better properties.

As soon as you let them into your pockets, they will only continue to get deeper and deeper into them."  

If someone gets hurt, the attorney will be going after the person with the deeper pockets (that's you).

Do not be afraid, be smart about how you do it, never provide any applicant any feed back, Reject or accept and move forward.I have not seen your application but my advice is dig deeper, pry deeper into their personal lives , make it tougher.

No pay no stay is the safest route for a landlord to take if they do not want to end up in a even deeper financial hole.

If you have any doubts after meeting them, dig deeper into their application and background check. look out for inconsistencies.  

@Seth Macomber Well, I certainly didn't expect you to say it was your parents..... there must be some deeper relationship issues here to even rent to them in the first place. 

If not you did it wrong and you are only digging a deeper hole.