If you have a valid lease in place (and in your scenario, I would never do a formal lease/rental agreement...you should treat this like an extended stay hotel, which doesn't give the tenant an equitable interest), you should follow Sec. 92 of the Texas Property Code.

Just thinking, if you are corner lot bordering on a non-owned street and non-association property, a liability loss might be more likely on your property than one on the street. 

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All documents are formally signed.

Should I formally try to get a deposit of some kind?

I know that's an absolute anathema bordering on intolerable sacriledge and unforgivable hearsy to everything bureaucrats stand for, but it works amazingly well for those who must exist in the resource constrained world of the common man and has for time in memorial.

I dont really like to write or have the skill to be a formal writer.. but I am full of blue sky ideas LOL 

With that said, she can be evicted without proper Formal notice...just simply a verbal.

@Remington LymanMy first three duplexes were in Lakewood, Shaker Heights and Cleveland (on the border of Lakewood, so not a terrible area).

Or should I be placing a more formal request for information?