Oh, just had an idea. Do you think she would take the security deposit in installments? Add it to your rent or 4 payments of 500.00. Or let you guys work it off by painting or landscaping or something? Around here, people are desperate for good tenants who won't destroy the place and pay their rent. Anyway, just thought of this stuff, good luck, believe me, I know what it's like to live in an awful situation. Our last home was a pretty Cape in a beautiful seacoast town, but the neighborhood had oxy kids in it. I didn't trust them not to break in steal everything and kill my pets.