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In most states, leases are voided when properties are foreclosed upon; and banks take steps to get the occupants out as quickly as possible. However, a handful of states have laws on the books that safeguard tenants from eviction in such scenarios; while others are pushing legislation that would give renters more notice than the usual three to 30 days.

Kelly Evans — Wall Street Journal, October 2007

TEXAS PROPERTY CODE § 24.005. NOTICE TO VACATE PRIOR TO FILING EVICTION SUIT.

(b) If the occupant is a tenant at will or by sufferance, the
landlord must give the tenant at least three days’ written notice to
vacate before the landlord files a forcible detainer suit unless
the parties have contracted for a shorter or longer notice period in
a written lease or agreement.

If a building is purchased at a tax foreclosure sale or a trustee’s foreclosure sale under a lien superior to the tenant’s lease and the tenant timely pays rent and is not otherwise in default under the tenant’s lease after foreclosure, the purchaser must give a residential tenant of the building at least 30 days’ written notice to vacate if the purchaser chooses not to continue the lease. The tenant is considered to timely pay the rent under this subsection if, during the month of the foreclosure sale, the tenant pays the rent for that month to the landlord before receiving any notice that a foreclosure sale is scheduled during the month or pays the rent for that month to the foreclosing lienholder or the purchaser at foreclosure not later than the fifth day after the date of receipt of a written notice of the name and address of the purchaser that requests payment.

Before a foreclosure sale, a foreclosing lienholder may give written notice to a tenant stating that a foreclosure notice has been given to the landlord or owner of the property and specifying the date of the foreclosure.