She told me she does this because the owner keeps her husband busy with maintenance work (lots of patch jobs we found out)When I asked her if this was legal to keep the security deposits rather than keep them in Escrow (we are in TX) she said yes, because the deposits are advertised as "non-refundable".This is an arrangement that I've never heard of before.

I was out of town when they came, but the tenant would not allow them on that side of the property to fully close off the tent (there is a small wooden fence on one side and then a makeshift mesh fence she put up on the other side, preventing me from accessing that side of my property). 

blurry pic but the back wall with the insulation is completely rotted out from an improper pan installation... yes it's load bearingIn progress from about a week ago, all new copper, new framing on the exterior wall... yes the wall with the plumbing is 24in on center, yes I've added extra blocking for the durarock... yes my new pan will be 4 inches above the old shower that they covered up with the leaky one, yes I know that I installed the durarock before the mud base, I'm doing a liquid liner (redgard) and mudding the crap out of all the joints and the durarock will be joined to the mud pan with screwed in reinforcement mesh...

So after she notified me she was filling an emergency order within 24 hours I installed plug-in baseboards to help keep their rooms warm and they are mad because they have to pay for electricity for those. 

I think when she saw how bothered I was she sat in a hot house for 3 days because she did not want to bother me she realized I was a reasonable landlord and that is why she did not give me a hard time. 

I’d like to share what some one I met while tending bar a while ago told me. She

The tenant who want to stay told me she might have some friends interested but I doesn't seem like it worked out.

That video brought tears to my eyes.Then, the video mentions something like people who earn $150k, or $300k (can't remember) tell everyone they don't earn enough money to purchase a property.Then, there is the story I told 100 times on BP about the 20-year old Japanese girl who ran away from her parents in Japan, arrived in this country with zero money, never got a job, never had a driver license, never had a boyfriend and in 7 years she owned (financed) 18 condos and single family homes in upper middle-class neighborhoods and she called me on the phone and told me she had purchased a $550k house in Las Vegas and another house in Victorville California making her total 20 houses.It was strange when I met the Japanese girl in 2001 because I had just purchased my first apartment building that was 28 units and she saw me working on the apartments every day and she wanted to hustle me for free work and rides all over the city.

Told her that she will be safe to provide the document.She told me she just lost her job too, and I told them if they need help moving out I will pay for the moving company and help them with the security deposit for their rental... 

One of my applicants told me she has 2 DUI's which is apparently a felony.