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Tenants & LeasingWho Prepares and Signs the Lease When You Use a Property Manager
When you hire a manager, the manager prepares the lease on a Texas-compliant form and signs it as your authorized agent. Here is who does what, whether your existing lease can be used and what you still decide.
Justin Brown · 7 min read
Tenants & LeasingLate Every Month or Stopped Paying: How a Manager Takes Over a Rent Problem
A manager can take over a late-paying or non-paying tenant mid-lease. Here is the order of operations: rebuild the ledger, reset expectations in writing, run the notice sequence, and decide between a payment plan and eviction.
Justin Brown · 9 min read
Texas Law & TaxesWhen Damage or Unpaid Rent Exceeds the Deposit: Recovering the Rest in Texas
When the deposit is gone and the tenant still owes you, Texas gives you a demand letter, a Justice Court claim and a judgment to collect on. Here is how each works and when the chase stops making sense.
Justin Brown · 8 min read
Maintenance & Make-ReadyHow Fast Should a Broken AC Be Fixed in a Texas Rental?
In North Texas heat a dead AC is a same-day problem. Here is the response standard to expect from a manager, what Texas law requires, and how triage, dispatch and the repair-or-replace call should run.
Justin Brown · 8 min read
Maintenance & Make-ReadyUsing Your Own Contractors or Doing Repairs Yourself Under Management
Most managers will use your contractor if they are insured, licensed where required and responsive. Doing the work yourself is a narrower question. Here is where the line sits and why some tasks cannot be split.
Justin Brown · 8 min read
Maintenance & Make-ReadyWill You See the Original Repair Invoices and Photos of Finished Work?
You should see the vendor's original invoice and photos of the finished work on every repair, without asking. Here is what a complete repair record contains, where it should live, and the red flags when it is thin.
Justin Brown · 7 min read
Maintenance & Make-ReadyWill a Property Manager Work With Your Home Warranty Company?
Most managers will file and coordinate home warranty claims, with limits. Here is how a claim actually runs, where it collides with a tenant's repair timeline, and when paying a vendor directly costs less overall.
Justin Brown · 7 min read
Maintenance & Make-ReadyHow Property Managers Avoid Unnecessary Service Calls
A share of maintenance calls are breakers, filters, resets and batteries. Here is the phone triage that resolves them, the lease rule that bills tenant-caused calls back, and the prevention that stops them.
Justin Brown · 8 min read
Maintenance & Make-ReadyCatching Damage, Extra Occupants and Unauthorized Pets During the Lease
You will not know what is happening inside the house unless someone looks. Here is how inspections, drive-bys, vendor visits and paper signals catch damage, extra occupants and pets mid-lease, and what happens next.
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