Put out traps for cockroaches, of which there were none before they moved in, and we saw no evidence of when putting out traps. 

This paper backing is a vapor barrier and will trap moisture in the attic and you will have mold from the moisture trapped by this.  

That traps them into their excuse of "hygiene issues".  

If your manager isn't doing well at this you haven't found the right partner.Mice - Please see traps and poison and send me a picture of a mouse in the condo.

That choice IS ILLEGAL (in Calif) and unsafe - - creates  aa fire trap :sigh:

Pools are death traps.

It is frustrating but for some reason, with all the experience available, new landlords all seem to fall into the same basic tenant traps.

Anyways it's a duplex and the apartment is infested with roaches and every other insect there is.

However,even if an apparently abandoned property is not already open when I become involved with it, I am very confident that in every instance I can make a solid case in court that it was reasonable for me to believe the actual owner of an apparently abandoned property would have allowed me "to enter or remain" as provided for in section (3) of the law quoted above. 

If they are power hogs or water wasters let them deal with the bills themselves.Trash should be the only thing covered by rent to insure service every week and doesn't get stopped by non payment.Don't give them an excuse to let garbage pile up and attract insects and government fines.