At that point, the foreign filing fee is negligible compared to the protection you receive from the Texas Series LLC for your assets.

The damage here is 100% economic so it would take some research to figure out how to get around that ... under negligence, quasi-contract, constructive fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, something like that.

Could have been a lot worse than it ended up, the cost was negligible but set us back about 2 weeks on the rehab. 

My contract is a TAR and there is the following clause(2) Landlord will NOT pay to repair the following items unless caused by Landlord's negligence:(e) items that are cosmetic in nature with no impact on the functionality or use of the item;Say while the tenants are occupying and there is a shift in the property and there are cracks in the drywall not caused by a tenant am I required to fix since this is cosmetic? 

That being said, someone could slip on wet ground and get hurt.As a landlord it is your responsibility to remove any appearence of negligence on your part.

The upside of renovating/renting as a hold is negligible.

We had no fire damage or even threat of it, as we are over 30 feet away, catty-cornered, upwind of the fire. extreme negligence of the Fire Department and operator using heavy equipment on a personal residence. 

Look for irregular lines of bricks, especially under the windows and yucky looking ceilings inside, as a sign of negligence.

Pay an attorney to do it.Given it's several buildings and the pricing isn't crazy, I'm guessing the price difference in my case would be negligible either way, so I'm leaning towards #1 and proceeding as it it were a normal transaction for me.

But really, I'd say probably it more a function of the people than the animal -- if the tenant is unkept, lazy and negligent, then you can more or less plan on a negative experience with the furry critter.Not a landlord myself, but it would seem to me that responsible renters with a pet don't have a ton of good choices, so if they find a place they like that accepts them and their little fuzzy loved one, then they are way more likely to appreciate it, do right by you and not ruin it for themselves.