I know that it might harsh to give up vacation for going to school, but you can not gain without sacrifice. 

My first understanding of the pitfalls of real estate came with some harsh lessons growing up.

mentioned don't leave, some of us may be a bit harsh at times, but everyone is trying to help out.

It sounds a bit harsh to say BUT trust me.

Quote from @Carlos Lez: He is obligated to mitigate the damages and he should post his own ads.From your harsh responses, I think that you're just looking for other people to tell you that you're right and the tenant is wrong. 

I wish you luck and hope I wasn't too harsh. 

@Jonathan Greene iuuff tooo harsh.... where is the positive talk?

@Lyndon Moore So I dont mean for this to sound harsh, Im really saying this to prevent you from making a HUGE mistake.

I'm learning, so don't be too harsh on me :)  Thanks all!

I buy these places because Pittsburgh has magnificently bad weather and my business model requires that I keep them in the portfolio and running for years.Perhaps what this disaster in Texas reveals most about rental real estate investors as a group is our over-reliance on housing inspectors who tell us very little about the suitability of buildings to bear up under harsh conditions, our over-reliance on numbers analysis and ignorance of basic construction fundamentals, our over-reliance on long-distance investing business models that leave us practically helpless when things really go bad for our properties and our tenants.