Protecting Your Austin Rental Investment with Detailed Property Walk-Throughs

Smart landlords know it’s important to keep an eye on their investment property. At Austin Landmark Property Services, we don’t make promises we can’t keep. We know some property managers claim to inspect your home three or four times a year.

That’s unlikely.

In Texas, only licensed inspectors may conduct an official inspection. A licensed inspection can cost hundreds of dollars and is typically only performed when purchasing a home. Most Austin property managers are not licensed inspectors. Therefore, we do not promise to perform inspections. Instead, we perform walk-throughs.

When you have a good tenant who pays rent on time and your home doesn’t have any real maintenance issues, we’ll perform a walk-through once a year, usually halfway through the lease period. Anything more frequent could violate your tenant’s privacy and look like harassment. If your property has ongoing or recurring maintenance issues or your tenant has proven to be a problem, we’ll make the walk-throughs more frequent.

Walk-Throughs Avoid Deferred Maintenance and Property Damage

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The most important reason you need an annual walk-through is to ensure the safety and habitability of the rental home. Some of the high priority safety and habitability issues we check for include:

  • Functional smoke alarms

  • Window and door locks

  • Unreported leaks or water problems

It’s also important to use these walk-throughs as a lease enforcement tool. You want to be sure your resident is following all the terms of your lease agreement. We can look for unauthorized pets and roommates, and we’ll also document any modifications that have been made to the home. We’ll address illegal activity and bring the resident into compliance before situations get out of control.

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Lease violations are rare. We work hard to screen and place excellent tenants at Austin Landmark Property Services, and we’ve found that, during these walk-throughs, any problems are often with the home and not with the resident.

Protecting Austin properties in Barton Hills/Travis Heights, Westlake, Avery Ranch, Anderson Mill, Great Hills, and surrounding areas.

Walk-Through Reports are Detailed and Documented

We want to make sure everything is detailed, accurate, and well-documented when it comes to walk-throughs at your Austin rental property. We contract with third-party vendors who specialize in these walk-throughs. It ensures a completely subjective and accountable report. We can review and provide a consistent, professional report with pictures included. You don’t want a busy property manager rushing through this task. You want a professional who is experienced in this type of walk-through.

Your report will be emailed and available as soon as it’s complete. We will handle all high priority items right away, and we’ll discuss lower priority items with you before making any repairs or taking any action.

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One thing we want to remember is that these are not licensed inspectors who are looking at your home. They’re relying on visual inspection of systems like the HVAC, plumbing, roof, hot water heater, and other systems and functions. We believe in full disclosure and transparency; we’re not going to assure you the roof is in perfect shape if our vendor could not get up there due to dangerous conditions.

This is a cost-effective alternative to professional inspections. A walk-through in most homes will cost less than $150.

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Additional Ways we Protect Your Austin Investment

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Beyond annual walk-throughs, random drive-by checks of the exterior are performed. This is easy for your property managers to do when we’re in the area.

When work is performed at the home, our in-network vendors will always report anything out of sorts to us. For example, if there’s a dog at the property when we listed the property as being pet-free, our vendors and contractors will let us know. Anything that looks off to our professional maintenance partners will be reported and dealt with.

Our Austin property owners who use this regular walk-through service feel more informed about their properties, and these investments are typically better maintained. We find there’s less deferred maintenance and fewer tenant surprises. These aren’t mandatory when you work with us, but we highly recommend them.

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I am actually tenant of a house through ALPS since 2009 I am fortunate to deal with a group of professional Housing Manager, Maintenance Manager and other Admin team, They were very helpful to me and to my family every time we requested their services they provide us in a record of time and efficiently. I highly recommend the ALPS to any one who needs to deal with them.

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What People Say About Us

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Oct 29, 2024
Google - Zach - Austin Landmark Property Services, Inc
Renting from ALPS has been a very pleasant experience. Marc has been helpful and timely with maintenance situations. Overall, I would say they provide a reliable service with good customer relations.
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Jul 18, 2024
Google - VERONICA - Austin Landmark Property Services, Inc
The property is well cared for and it is a pleasure living here.
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Jun 28, 2024
Google - Karen - Austin Landmark Property Services, Inc
Fast response and checking in on the progress of work orders. Great team!
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Apr 30, 2024
Google - Rosie - Austin Landmark Property Services, Inc
Austin Landmark Properties are a very efficient company. Service are handled quickly and with great communication. I appreciate them very much. Thank you, Rosie Titus
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Feb 24, 2024
Google - Jackie - Austin Landmark Property Services, Inc
We have enjoyed working with them and have made our living in a rent home very comfortable and satisfying. Also they have taken care of any issues we have had right away!
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Nov 25, 2023
Google - Nathan - Austin Landmark Property Services, Inc
They've been a great landlord for me thus far - very responsive and fair.
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Sep 23, 2023
Google - Verionca - Austin Landmark Property Services, Inc
Everything went well.He did not have the part. but when it came he came out to put it in.
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Aug 31, 2023
Google - JR - Austin Landmark Property Services, Inc
Friendly, helpful staff all the way around. Relocating for work is never easy - but they made it much more bearable working my walkthrough around a tight travel schedule.
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Aug 25, 2023
Google - Mike - Austin Landmark Property Services, Inc
Maintenance requests are handled quickly and Pam has been great helping to deal with all the things that come up when renting a house. Much appreciated.
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Aug 22, 2023
Google - Jennifer - Austin Landmark Property Services, Inc
Wonderful company great brokers and Realtors thank you guys for the opportunity to live in one of your properties

Want to Learn More?

If you’d like to learn more about our properties and what it’s like to work with Austin Landmark Property Services for professional Austin property management, get in touch. We’d be happy to talk more about our rental properties, our application requirements, and our leasing process.  

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AUSTIN LANDMARK PROPERTY SERVICES

Street Address
11573 Jollyville Road
Austin, TX 78759

Mailing Address
PO BOX 202344
Austin, TX 78720-2344