@David Veeder, thank you for the outstanding and thorough response.  

If there was a lot of returned addresses or high response rates?

However, in order to initiate a "rent strike" and not pay rent, at least in Texas, there are specific notification and response windows that have to be met (by the tenant) and failed (by the landlord) before the tenant can take any of this action.If you have your requests and invoices for the efforts to remedy the situations, if the issues named were never reported, and If the report appears retaliatory in intent, you're probably in good shape.

Its great to see a young individual creating a portfolio early on. 

So as I'm processing everyone's responses, here are my challenges (in my head):1.

Then you can expand this strategy to different markets and track ROI on each individual campaign so you know your money is being spent wisely.

I appreciate the swift response.

As long as the GC is responsible for everything and reputable, according to your post above, you have a fair point.  

If you liked the forum response I just posted a blog post that was inspired by my comment here.

@Jeff Copeland Just wanted to say thanks for the very thorough response, and I think for the present I'll just continue mailing my leads and hold off on the short sale bit.