Turning your house into a rental?

What first-time Austin landlords get wrong.

The four expensive mistakes are consistent: pricing off an online estimate instead of leased comps, listing before the home photographs well, accepting the first applicant who seems friendly, and using a generic lease pulled off the internet. Each one shows up later as vacancy, deposit disputes, or a tenancy you cannot end cleanly. Renting out a house in Texas also carries specific obligations — security deposit accounting and timelines, required disclosures, habitability and repair-response duties, and notice procedures that must be followed exactly. Driven runs all of it: we tell you what to fix and what to leave alone, price from executed comps, present the home properly, verify every adult applicant against income, credit, background, and prior landlords, and put a compliant Texas lease in place. After move-in you get one manager, one monthly statement, and calls you no longer have to take.