Recently supply chain snarls have caused long lead times for windows, so making sure those come in on time may reduce your project time significantly. 

My reading finds the Court simply reciting the Hornbook law that a quit claim deed only passes the title the grantor has and no more.(769) "See BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY 1126 (5th ed. 1979) (a quitclaim deed is a deed of conveyance intending to pass any title, interest or claim of the grantor, but not professing that such title is valid, nor containing any warranty or covenants for title)".Even if the decision says what you think it says, I believe Sec. 13.006 of the Texas Property Code now codifies criteria that satisfies some of the concerns title insurers had that resulted in their hesitancy to insure titles with a recent QCD in the chain. 

The water company gave me a slight leak adjustment, enough to enjoy a meal at Wendy’s.

(Reference Kenoe on Land Trusts 1989) just so you know this ruling stops the partitioning of beneficial interest in a LT so a creditor could not pierce the trust with a charging order since other beneficiaries would be negatively impacted.The worse case scenario would be the creditor can take that say 10% beneficial interest in the trust and they would not get paid until the property sold to cash out but the trust itself it NOT pierced and nothing is ironclad.The LLC protect the LLC members form liability and the LT protect the "corpus" or real property.Depending on your exit strategy determines the trust you should use and how it would be setup.I use LT in my investing and honestly like the way they work when done right so just wish to chime in.LT also work very well in multiple investor scenarios on property.LLC and Land Trusts are like bread and butter they work very well together that is basically my point.Mitch as to grant claim deed my understanding is you show proven reliable chain of title and that you have documentation you have the right of ownership.

Do you know the names of the police officers in the precinct and bring a meals to those in your local fire station? 

REI isn't charity and some chain smoking tenant who can't afford $750 bucks a month isn't one most landlords would want or accept.

. - This chain has sparked me to connect with my CPA on Monday to go into this in more detail. 

We have American and great Mexican chain stores.!

Ground leases for national chains, etc.5.

Even if you opt to not go with a national chain like ADT, Comcast or AT&T and opt for a local company, I wouldn't select SimpliSafe (or Vivent for that matter, but thats a whole other post).As for tenants thinking that the house is unsafe and needs an alarm, thats not the perception.