Somebody wanting to sue for you backing out of a bad deal or accusing you of selling them a property with defects like unknown termite damage).

Lastly, Planks are easy to repair, just take off the toe moldings and disassemble it to remove the damaged plank. 

Living in Houston and having rental properties it is definitely AC--lasts about 10 years, Roofs--can last 20 years but check hail damage, and crazy as it sounds water heaters. 

No one needs this kind of trouble.If she will leave and you can keep the deposit, I'd probably be inclined to call it a day and let it go unless she has caused damage in that 2.5 week period of time.

@Damon Cameron JrI grew up poor, dressed in garage sale clothes, damaged canned goods, powdered milk and government cheese.

We have 30k we can invest, right now we are looking at Houston and Cleveland, here is what we found and are asking for some advice or ideas on which would be a better investment for usClevelandPros: cheaper, cash flow is higherCons: most of the houses we looked at seem pretty damaged and old, may need a lot of fixes, less popular, less appreciation HoustonPros: populated, more jobs, (easier to find tenants?)

THE PROBLEM is that is was trashed by tenant,we had to evict, cops know about him, menace,tenant stole appliances, punched holes in the wall,smoked drugs, potential buyer did a Meth test and it failed,invoice says $12K in repairs PLUS appliances, damage, etc.WHAT would you do?

We got the property rented for April 1, 2022 and sent her the security deposit disposition which showed she had a balance after covering the one month rent, one month to re-lease the property and an amount related to damages that occurred due to tenants neglect.We received a letter back a few days later from the Connecticut Fair Housing Center, informing us that we needed to return the entire security deposit back to the tenant.

And keep them on file.Sure, you might be able to do it yourself, but what's more expensive, hiring a plumber or water damage? 

It's generally not an adjustment and worthy of only a comment.Intrinsic values are certianly not market values, agreed, in RE financing and investing at the scope of properties discussed on this site, we speak in terms of market values, if we were in court and assessing damages to be awarded then value becomes relevant to a degree.