I am not a lawyer and have never spent any significant time in TX, but it sounds to me like they are looking for things that shouldn't be there. I'm assuming you are a student and that this apartment houses mostly students. Apartment complexes are generally harder on students than any other segment of the population, but not without good reason. You may not be doing anything wrong, but chances are someone in the complex is. Examples I can think of off the top of my head: More people living in the apartment than the management knows about (lease says 2 people, 4 live there...), someone having a dog if they are not allowed, someone having a dog that did not pay the pet deposit... They also could be looking for unusual wear and tear - holes in the walls, carpet torn up..., or any other type of lease violation.
I agree the polite thing to do would be to tell you what they are inspecting, but if you are doing something you need to hide you know what it is and at least they have given you fair warning that they are coming. By the way, some people (I'm not saying I am one of them) would think that by being so defensive about it you have something to hide. Hindsight is 20/20, but I would never have given them my apartment number when calling to find out what they are inspecting because it may incent them to look harder in your apartment.
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