So there's no incentive to keep security deposits in an interest bearing account.

Lisa Bolanos of Elevate Realty-Crestline to Big Bear, Darlene Mitschke of The Money Store

Worst case is a dog chews up all the baseboard and window sills, scratches all the doors, tears down all the blinds, tears up or soils all the carpet, and tears up the yard.

Put more eloquently, the Alabama Supreme Court said, “Though ordinarily there exists a presumption that one does not intend to abandon his property, this presumption is not attendant where the article claimed to have been abandoned is generally considered valueless.”[1] Photographic evidence that the contents of a tax sale property were all damaged, heavily soiled, or not worth the cost to haul to the dump, would seem to indicate “valueless” abandoned property.

Cost to replace a 3-way valve can be $200 in some areas, cost to replace a 3-way valve that has broken and is streaming water into the wall of a 2nd story apartment at 3am could be (whatever the market will bear) $500, $800, 1,200....Plumbers are expensive.Did you get an itemized bill?

Places like Hawaii, Palm Springs, Joshua Tree, Gatlinburg, Kissimmee, Tahoe, Big Bear, etc. are some of my favorite locations to use social media because there is so much competition and the demographic lends well to Instagram. 

If you want to own or manage STRs, look to the nearby vacation destinations like Big Bear and Joshua Tree.

There are 5 on my street and every week, we deal with the same issues- noise, trash-which brings in the bears, speeding, campfire/BBQ smoke (even though they are banned), etc.  

as for investing in Texas i think the biggest thing that buy and hold investors miss is the property tax situation and the shock when the property is reassessed and your postiive cash flow just went negative.. then the other issue is foundation and soil  wind and hail.. 

😂😂😂  Can a bear scat in the woods?