*Not advice* Just my opinion.

Any advice or insight you may have would be greatly appreciated! 

However, I wanted to ask if anyone had advice on just filing a police report on your tenant?

I could not read the NYT article because you need a subscription, but I found another article that walks one through a numbers exercise of determining the true cost of owning versus renting Do you think this provides similar sound advice? 

Any advice or insights would be greatly appreciated.

I am not saying that your experience is wrong.What I am against is using personal opinion or personal experience to give advice by forming a conclusion when the experiment used to form that conclusion is not relevant.Let me explain.Mister Brad Daniels made $2M dollars cold calling and now he is trying to convince the masses that cold calling is the way to go.You know what?

Advice here is usually leverage to the moon and speculate on rates because "real estate go up!"

I'd love advice from experienced investors familiar with the Houston/Fort Bend area or anyone aware of recent trends.

Sorry if this question is not allowed, but any advice will be much appreciated.Thank you in advance! 

While standard advice for USA investors is to create and use an LLC, it could be a very bad idea.