Handle urgent duties
Health, safety, essential services, lawful access, and lease duties come before the ownership decision.
For Bexar County rental-property owners
Done with landlording? Protect the tenant, then measure the real burden.
Separate urgent duties from cash flow and workload, then compare a 90-day reset, professional management, or a responsible exit.
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Who made this site?
Bexar County Home Buyers, a private home-buying company. The tools are free and do not send us your answers. Discussing a possible purchase is a separate choice.
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Which situation sounds most like yours?
You do not need to know the professional term. Choose the closest statement.
The basics
Do the right work in a clear order.
Organize the tenant file
Keep the lease, deposits, payments, occupants, requests, notices, and communication together.
Build a real rental year
Subtract vacancy, management, repairs, turnover, utilities, taxes, insurance, and reserves.
Count owner labor
Track calls, travel, coordination, bookkeeping, conflict, and emergency availability.
Price delegation
Compare managers using the same duties, response standards, fees, and exclusions.
Plan a responsible exit
A sale does not erase the lease, deposits, repair duties, access rules, or tenant protections.
Free tool
Separate burnout from duties and numbers.
Protect the tenant first. Then compare stabilizing, delegating, or exiting responsibly.
Next steps
One thing at a time.
What to do
- Resolve urgent health and safety needs.
- Organize lease and tenant records.
- Calculate a normal month and full year.
What to do
- List every owner task and deferred repair.
- Get a written management proposal.
- Build a 90-day stabilization plan.
What to do
- Review tenant communication and access.
- Compare tenant-in-place and future-vacancy paths.
- Confirm deposits, records, title, and realistic net proceeds.
Official sources
Go to the agency responsible.
Rules and accounts change. These links open the official source.
Safety comes first.
Call 911 for fire, gas, violence, medical danger, or immediate threat. Respond promptly to sewage, flooding, loss of essential service, structural, electrical, fire, and security problems using qualified help.
Common questions
Clear answers to get started.
Confirm dates, rights, and requirements with the responsible agency or qualified professional.
Is burnout a good reason to sell?
It is a good reason to measure the operating design and ownership fit, but it does not remove current duties.
Should I stop repairs if I may sell?
No. Continue addressing health, safety, essential-service, lease, and legal obligations.
Would a manager solve the problem?
Only if the service actually covers the work causing the burden and the complete cost fits the property.
Can I sell with a tenant?
Possibly, but the lease, deposits, repairs, access, notices, disclosures, and buyer plan matter.
Can a new owner make the tenant leave?
Do not promise that. A transfer does not automatically erase a lease or legal protections.
Next step
Protect the tenant. Measure the load. Choose a path you can sustain.
Use the free tool first. If you later want to discuss selling the property in its current condition, that conversation is optional and separate.