First of all, you have to foreclose judicially on TX HELOCs.

I'm doing my taxes for 2017 now.  I've had a duplex since 2012, with tenants in it since 2013.  2017 was a particularly rough year--my property management company has recorded $5700 of repairs that were done, and in b...

Sounds like you guys are year long so that complicates things.

I see the importance of spelling out rules and fees but we try keeping it simple as guests really can get turned off by overly complicated and overly worded rules.

I know the laws aren't exactly the same as DC so it can get complicated. 

Learn the business before you complicate your life and incur costs you may not be able to control.

@Jay Paul Jenkins, @Steve Morris, @Peter Walther, Alabama tax sales law is PHENOMENALLY complicated.

If the addressee dodges the letter, it is more complicated, but a reasonable judge would consider the notice properly served unless the law allows for multiple ways of notifying the tenant and the landlord didn't try the other ways.

All complicated problems need to be evaluated from a number of points of view to triangulate what is best.  

If I had it to do over I wouldn't have done it due to property management costs and complications I've ran into (and lack of appreciation as you've mentioned).