Just a tenant who hasn't paid rent for a DECADE. 

After a decade of hard labor trying to make a dime flipping fixer properties in the WRONG market at the WRONG time I can tell you one crucial thing;It is much easier (& much more profitable) to "ride the wave" and invest in expanding, appreciating markets.

I wonder how many calls I'm going to get about this before the decade is over"?

I find that if the tile is done well you shouldn't have an issue for decades. 

I have an inexpensive and utterly dependable HP mono laser at least a decade old, and a Brother flatbed/sheetfed all-in-one that I only use as a scanner, I inherited it from my mom after my longtime scanner was not supported by Win10.

We have been hearing the sky is falling for decades.

Historically Texas as a very elastic housing supply.So I am still comfortable selling my lemons into this run up in prices and buying cheaper diamonds in the rough in the future, Assuming interest rates don't reverse their multi-decade decline.

If you haven't figured this out by your second or third deal, you're most likely not going to do too many more deals and you certainly won't still be around real estate a couple years from now, let alone 3 decades from now.We talk a lot about rules of thumb here on BP, and the discussion is nearly always in the context of, "this is a rule of thumb and shouldn't be confused with formal analysis."

An elderly electrician I met several years ago at a school project had noticed this over the years, and it was interesting hearing his insights from many decades of observation going back to before I was born.

I have owned houses for 20 years and never seen them or talked to the tenant.I remember a seminar I went to decades ago and the speaker said that he had known real estate investors who drive by their rental property EVERY DAY and brag to themselves that they OWN that house.