Tenant Placement & Leasing Services for DFW, Austin & Houston Landlords
Want to manage your rental property yourself but need help finding and placing the right tenant?
Story Real Estate provides professional tenant placement and leasing services for landlords throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin, and Houston areas. We handle the leasing process from pricing and marketing through applicant screening, lease preparation, and move-in — then turn the property back over to you for ongoing management.
Get Your Rental in Front of More Qualified Tenants
We professionally market your rental property and advertise it through the MLS and major rental websites to maximize exposure.
MLS marketing also reaches local real estate agents working with renters, helping expand your tenant pool beyond applicants searching rental websites on their own.
Our goal isn’t simply to generate more inquiries. It’s to attract qualified applicants who are a good fit for the property.
Price Your Rental Based on the Market
Setting the right rental price is one of the most important parts of leasing a property.
We review comparable rental properties, recent leasing activity, property condition, location, and current market competition to help determine a competitive rental rate.
The goal is to maximize rental income without allowing an overpriced property to sit vacant unnecessarily.
Tenant Screening & Verification
Don’t let someone else’s headache become your headache. Get the full picture of who is moving into your property. All tenants who meet the initial rental requirements are required to do a credit and background check to ensure they are a qualified tenant. Also, we contact previous landlords to verify their rental history and their employers to verify their income/employment.
We Write The Lease
Not only do we help find your new tenant, we also write the lease and get it signed for you too! Having an ironclad lease is for your protection which is done by using the Texas Realtors Lease. Plus, you don’t have to spend time or headache writing a lease and getting it signed by your new tenants.
Move-In Coordination & Landlord Handoff
We can collect the tenant’s deposit and first month’s rent on behalf of you, the owner. Plus, we’ll coordinate their move into the property and send you a copy of the lease plus all monies paid to you.
How it Works
1) Property Pictures & Marketing
The leasing process begins with a walk through of the property and taking pictures for marketing. Then we create a listing on the MLS to begin marketing to prospective tenants. The listing will syndicate from the MLS to all of the major websites such as realtor.com and more.
2) Schedule Property Showings
We handle all of the phone calls of perspective tenants, answer their questions, and coordinate property showings. Through pre-screening, our goal is to find the best application on the property and narrowing down the search of who is qualified and who is not.
3) Collect & Review Applications
As we begin to narrow down the best fit applicants for the property, we will collect and review the applications. On each completed application, we check to ensure that they meet all pre-screening qualifications and tenant criteria prior to ordering a background and credit check.
4) Screen Applicants
We then begin our due-diligence to make sure that everything checks out before final approval of the applicant to move in. Applicant Screening is one of the most time-consuming part of the process. We review the applications and begin to run background checks, credit checks, income verification, employment verification and rental verification. We are looking to make sure that everything lines up correctly and that your applicant is the best applicant possible.
5) Write & Complete Lease
Once you, the landlord has given final approval on the tenant, we will write the lease up and send it to all parties, tenant and landlord, for signatures.
6) Coordinate & Complete Move-in
As part of the move-in process, we can/will collect the security deposit and first month’s rent for you, the landlord. Making the entire process hands-off. Our duty is to ensure that the process of the tenant moving is seamless. All the way from scheduling the move-in date, collection of funds, and handing over the keys to the new tenant.
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