Sometimes, it makes sense not to sell and to hang on to your house as an investment and not as your home. There is an upside to renting out your home, even though it does...
The San Antonio apartment market has seen plenty of growth recently, with roughly 5,000 apartment units added in 2015 and 5,700 expected to come online this year. Rents are increasing, and San Antonio apartment dwellers...
When you’re looking to rent a house in San Antonio, you’ll eventually need to fill out a rental application. A lot of people hate filling them out for two reasons – one, there’s a lot...
Avoiding Rental Scams We’ve talked about rental scams before on the site and they never go away. However, as the rental market has been hot in recent months, we’re seeing more and more rental scams and some...
Rentals Are Moving Fast – You Have To Move Faster I do a lot of processing of applications for rental properties for our office. In doing them, I see the same mistakes being made time...
Haunted House Causes Tenants Fright It’s Halloween and what better topic for today than haunted houses? This question was recently asked at the Texas Association of Realtors: “A tenant recently moved into a property I...
Be Prepared Before You Rent If you’re a renter here in San Antonio, you know that the rental market can be brutal. Agents will drive a renter to several homes, let them take a look,...
Information About Renting With Pets It seems everybody owns a pet these days; a dog, a cat, a lizard, a hamster, a snake…well maybe not so many people own snakes. Renting with pets can be...
Rentals Are Flying Off The Shelves San Antonio has been experiencing a hot rental market since last year and it doesn’t look like it’s going to let up anytime soon. While the sales of homes...
Re-Keying Your Rental Property Some of our landlords have recently asked about the rules on rekeying their property, so we thought we’d take a moment to clarify the rules. The Texas Property Code, Section 92.151(15)...
If you’ve had your home listed for sale and it just doesn’t seem to be selling, there’s typically a few reasons. Price is always a major factor and even though we’ve seen an uptick in...
“How’s the rental market in San Antonio?” I’ve been asked this question numerous times in the past few weeks, and the answer is simple: the rental market in San Antonio is booming. Homes for rent...
