My lease states the following:"Unless the parties agree otherwise in writing, Tenant may not permit, even temporarily, any pet on the property (including but not limited to any mammal, reptile, bird, fish, rodent, or insect.)""

Recent internet searches of the economy of this town point to the underwhelming economy, which is heavily tied to oil and gas.  

I worked on Oil Tankers 30 years ago and made $100K with Mutual Funds while I was shipping around the world, in order to Buy my Rentals in S.

You want it off of the lender's radar so they'll keep busy "frying bigger fish" and not focusing on the title change.

Or some external factor out of your control like a huge company moving in closeby could raise property values and rents, or an oil spill could really screw things up. 

Hello everyone,My business partner and I spent 10 years building an internet marketing firm that now, *knock on wood*, runs a bit like a well-oiled machine.

One thing we did discover is (this property doesn’t have a basement it’s on a slab), because of the pet urine soaking into the concrete after cleaning, bleaching… we sealed it with Kilz oil based sealer to lock in/out the odors and ran my Ozone machine for a month to help with the smell.The Bear Paint distributor for Home Depot said we should have used water based Kilz and not oil based.

Houston got hit a little with oil prices going down.

We have been hit so hard over the past 3-4 years with the oil industry slowing down to a crawl. 

We have had our local economy go bust for while here due to the drop in oil prices.