Thanks Deanna,From my research Texas law says late fees are allowed within reason which leaves it up to individual interpretation.

If the one doing the marketing does not own the property that they are marketing they are marketing a property "for another" no matter what they choose to tell themselves.This is no more a misinterpretation than I am an astronaut or big purple cartoon dinosaur...All laws are open to interpretation in this country what do you think lawyers and judges do for us everyday...

They can be interpreted as 'financing'....this is the information I have been given.

A deposit is intended and interpreted by many courts to be refundable unless there is damage or other more firmly calculable damages, what I'm seeing above is arbitrary.

My remarks were really just to prove the point that interpretations are nothing more than that...one person's opinion.

How does one interpret the concomitant articles of high crime and poverty.

°If the contract is not clear, the contract is interpreted against the party who wrote the contract.

It may be one of those areas where different jurisdictions/courts interpret the law differently.  

One other item I should note: the old owner's interpretation of the lease doesn't necessarily matter.

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