She should be able to press charges and get a restraining order. 

It does NOT include a small portion of Richardson, which is in Collin County, but it DOES include portions of Garland & Dallas.)There have been some excellent articles written - mainstream press - about why Texas doesn't experience the RE bubble & burst phenom a lot of the rest of the country does. 

Eventually, it all works out because his wife decides not to press charges and they go to marriage counseling and they are doing much better now.Several months have passed now and his voucher request for a 2 bedroom has just been approved and so he gives notice to me and his final day was yesterday.

Spent $7k turning the old junky basement into industrial-chic-cool with exposed wood beams, lots of shiny new electrical outlets via exposed conduits and OSB (pressed wood) for the sub floor.

There where more pressing issues to deal with. 

But you were smarter than "the crowd" and quickly paid down debt on your LOC to $550K, still had positive cash flow despite having to lower your rents because unlike the guy with a mortgage, you had options, a competitive advantage in the market because you could always just press the pause button by making the interest only payment until the storm passed.

Also note that one would be hard pressed to get a conventional loan on one of these units ("condotel"). 

They type in the house number and hear info on the house, can have an app texted to them (link to pdf) or additional info texted or, based on hours, can press a button to talk to me. 

I would encourage you to press them on that question.  

You can read the whole article here: https://www.mba.org/2017-press-releases/january/mortgage-applications-decreased-over-two-week-period-in-latest-mba-weekly-surveyWhat does seasonally adjusted basis mean?