No idea why you think the system is perfect.And as for the address thing, again that's another horrible thing where future tenants of a house can pick up remnants of previous tenants' bad credit. 

That was a horrible decision since it isn't worth the paper it is written on to try and hold a tenant but you will be bound to it and the tenant. 

I don't give references and I don't ask for references.I had a horrible tenant who wanted a recommendation.

It is horrible what happened to them, but it is also horrible what they are doing to you.

Primarily because they do not know all the ways a case can go horribly, horribly wrong.

That would promote a horrible image for you.As for pursuing the damages from cousin?

The buyer was paying on time so there was no way I was going to foreclose and take back in a horrible market. 

Because even if they stay, they will most likely make your life miserable.I took over a building that had been horribly managed by one of the owners (old guy who didn't need the money), who had let tenants get way behind on rent, hadn't raised the rent in years, yatta yatta.  

This is a horrible idea.

By comparison it seems several times a year I see stories of a Pitbull that horribly attacks or even kills someone.