For instance, the resentment that festers in the grandmother whose Daughter is off doing who-knows-what while the non-paying adult grand kids (and their friends) live high (no hog) in the house that grandma pays for.

What happens with the rents collected after she dies but before the granddaughter becomes an adult?

So six kids plus adults is two many people in the home.

My husband is a piano professor and I'm an English teacher to Spanish kids and adults. 

While I generally agree 'once a dead beat - always a dead beat' - but seems they are trying to change their situation: selling a 1500 sq ft house to rent an 1100 sq ft house (with their 3 adult  - college bound - kids!)

It's two completely different ways to pay the same money.I don't know, in the end it doesn't matter if you guys get it, I'm just astounded that a group of adults who think they are financially savvy can't get this.

I live in the basement unit of a house and I rent out the upstairs to skinny young adults and if you heard the stomping around that I hear you would be convinced they are all 300+ pounds upstairs. 

But that is because I always treat my tenants as adults with whom I am conducting a mutually beneficial business transaction, not children or monkeys to be "trained."

Originally posted by @Ben Meddeb:No,  I sent someone knocked on the door , no one answered so he left it at the door The only acceptable forms of notification in Texas are:-In Person to Tenant or an adult over 18 residing at the property-Taped on the inside of the door-Certified Mail

Then, when they call you, go over all of your criteria again, asking if they believe they would qualify, and did they know they had to pay an application fee for each adult?