So I do apologize if I came off as a douche but just seen this crap for the last 30 years and its really unfair how the system from soup to nuts is designed to fail long term. 

The people with souped up unemployment can afford it.

From what I read, their landlords, who are corporate owned because these are apartment complexes, responded much like the soup Nazi, no relief for you. 

They deal in extremely high volume of commodity goods where all items are of like kind, like 100,000 cans of tomato soup. 

Normally if you make a list and work your way down it will give your brain a way to hang the information on so it doesn't feel like a soup and you will start to feel more in charge of the information,Hope that helps.

No way to feasibly split half a bowl of soup. 

Do you have a picture that is not so up-close?

Let in run off your back.Do your own research about whose meter that tap is gauged from and pay attention to the location of the tap (whose property line it's on - the plot could thicken with such answers. 

And those homes are being sold to what exactly Joel is alluding too  SUCKER BUYERS  and because Houston is soup de jour right now in the Turk Key world and apartment world the seller is looking for that dummy not a local who can and is buying wholesale like you are...  

I think that's the best way to go big with just a little capital. 3.5% down and they use the rents from the 3 other units to qualify you, so ups your purchase price a lot..