The most common portfolio style loan in Texas is a 20 year adjustable rate loan.

A person for whose benefit the bond is written or his legal representative may bring an action in the district, common pleas or municipal court where the landlord resides or does business for collection on the bond.Bottom line, if the landlord obtains a bond, the funds can be co-mingled in the landlord’s general operations account, from which normal bills are paid.

Also add this:  "This lease is for use of a single room only, personal items left in the common areas can be removed at the discretion of the landlord with 1 day notice to the tenant.

Why would anyone with common sense, risk all of that?

Live there, rent it to a snazzy restaurant, common area for the renters (???)

This scenario is very common with most of the properties as the owners sell at a very high rate.

Referrals are common networking in most businesses. 

Typical radio silence treatment that has become all too common with the times.  

A lien under this subchapter does not attach to:(1) wearing apparel;(2) tools, apparatus, and books of a trade or profession;(3) schoolbooks;(4) a family library;(5) family portraits and pictures;(6) one couch, two living room chairs, and a dining table and chairs;(7) beds and bedding;(8) kitchen furniture and utensils;(9) food and foodstuffs;(10) medicine and medical supplies;(11) one automobile and one truck;(12) agricultural implements;(13) children's toys not commonly used by adults;(14) goods that the landlord or the landlord's agent knows are owned by a person other than the tenant or an occupant of the residence; and(15) goods that the landlord or the landlord's agent knows are subject to a recorded chattel mortgage or financing agreement.

Are single family rental properties more common?