If you're taking care of the aforementioned items and anything else that comes up, and all he has to do is put some money down, a 50/50 split is a great deal for him. 

While I was taking it out for them it broke open and my wife and I ended up cleaning the mess. 

Get a bit of equity and then move it on to something else.

I have a realtor that I bought my primary residence with but other than that I am in need of everyone else involved in the process.

I have never had german roaches but it works on the big ones sometimes called palmetto bugs and everything else.

She opted, like many lottery winners do, to take the smaller lump sump payment up front, rather than the time and energy associated with taking payments over time (i.e. selling them off one by one at a higher "market" price)The appraiser didn't care and used comps from foreclosures, that had been flipped after being purchased, from 2-3 years ago.Appraiser, like anyone else, do things for unexplained reasons some times.

Ground hogs are not an animal worth relocating or using live box traps on ,they should be killed so they don’t cause anybody else problems.

Anything else is a compromise.

. , a "good landlord reference" could be coming from someone who wants him out of their house and is trying to pawn him off on someone else. 

In terms of setting a protocol - I could tell them it must be rented by the end of November or else - but wondering what my "leverage" is if it doesn't happen?