Only if you consider working every night, weekend, holiday, and times when I should have been on vacation lucky, mucking around in crawlspaces, hunting down houses, falling through floors, etc. 

For as much as attorney's charge, they should be able to answer this question.The deposit can be used for cleaning, repairs, and unpaid charges.

@Kristin Boekhoff to add to the great input from @Jason Taken:1) To save money, you really want to clean as little as possible.

I plan on having kitchen remodeled, new flooring out in, and a wall removed.

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Never had an issue in 5 years of this when tenants have moved out I just send my house cleaner in for a deep clean NO turn over costs other than that.

She was paying on time and left the place clean.

Also the majority of those costs to covnert to a 2nd unit will need to be capitalized and depreciated, but some things (new appliances, flooring, paint, kitchen cabinets) can be shorter year assets vs. across the full 27.5 and IF it turns out that unit is > 50% you can use bonus as well on those items.

So bottom line they got away with it and are living in a beautiful safe clean country. 

We then cleaned all of the mold and reinsulated the attic.