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Your approval depends on who manages the property
Texas Eviction Friendly Apartments - a licensed apartment locating service (TREC #679806) with 8+ years placing renters with evictions - tracks which property management companies accept eviction records across Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Fort Worth, and Arlington. Every major Texas apartment community - from garden-style complexes in Katy to high-rise towers in Uptown Dallas - is either owned or operated by a large PMC, and each one has its own eviction screening philosophy. Some allow property-level manual review. Some run portfolio-wide policies with no exceptions. Some use SafeRent, some use CoreLogic, some pull from LexisNexis rental history databases, and some use in-house screening. Knowing your target property’s PMC and how that PMC handles evictions is the difference between a wasted $50-$100 application fee and an approved lease.
Below is the current landscape for the major PMCs operating in Texas. Every policy note is verified as of 2026, but PMC policies do shift, so we confirm again before recommending a specific property.
Major PMC eviction policies across Texas
Greystar
- Footprint: largest in Texas, spans Class-A luxury to mid-market
- Screening: mostly SafeRent (Class-A) and configurable products (mid-market)
- Eviction policy: property-level discretion. Some properties case-by-case dismissed and 2+ year filings; others auto-deny.
- Data sharing: yes, portfolio-wide. If denied at one, likely denied at all.
- Guarantor: some properties accept OneApp Guarantee for eviction cases.
- See our detailed Greystar guide
MAA (Mid-America Apartment Communities)
- Footprint: strong across DFW, Houston, Austin, San Antonio
- Screening: CoreLogic
- Eviction policy: generally strict; requires 2+ year age and paid balance. Some property-level flexibility.
- Data sharing: yes portfolio-wide.
- Guarantor: limited partnerships; check specific property.
RPM Living
- Footprint: growing across all major Texas metros
- Screening: varies, some CoreLogic, some SafeRent
- Eviction policy: significant property-level discretion. Many properties will case-by-case.
- Data sharing: partial portfolio-wide.
- Guarantor: several properties accept OneApp and Liberty Rent.
Cortland
- Footprint: significant DFW, Austin, Houston Class-A luxury
- Screening: SafeRent
- Eviction policy: strict. Requires 5+ year age or dismissal with strong income.
- Data sharing: yes portfolio-wide.
- Guarantor: The Guarantors accepted at some properties.
Camden Property Trust
- Footprint: strong Houston, DFW, Austin
- Screening: CoreLogic
- Eviction policy: generally strict but with some property-level flexibility. 2+ year paid or dismissed sometimes approved.
- Data sharing: yes portfolio-wide.
- Guarantor: limited.
Willow Bridge Property Company
- Footprint: expanding across Texas
- Screening: Yardi RentGrow and configurable products
- Eviction policy: significant property-level discretion. Case-by-case common.
- Data sharing: partial.
- Guarantor: expanding OneApp Guarantee partnerships.
Lincoln Property Company
- Footprint: strong DFW and Austin
- Screening: varies
- Eviction policy: property-level; many properties will consider 2+ year old evictions.
- Data sharing: partial.
- Guarantor: some properties.
Venterra Realty
- Footprint: Houston, DFW, Austin
- Screening: CoreLogic and Yardi
- Eviction policy: generally property-level; case-by-case for paid or dismissed.
- Data sharing: partial.
- Guarantor: limited.
NRP Group
- Footprint: strong across all major Texas metros (Class-A new construction)
- Screening: SafeRent
- Eviction policy: strict. Requires 3+ year age with strong file.
- Data sharing: yes portfolio-wide.
- Guarantor: limited.
Asset Living
- Footprint: mixed Texas portfolio, including some student housing
- Screening: varies
- Eviction policy: property-level; case-by-case common at non-student properties.
- Data sharing: partial.
- Guarantor: some properties.
ZRS Management
- Footprint: growing Texas presence
- Screening: CoreLogic mostly
- Eviction policy: property-level; case-by-case at many properties.
- Data sharing: partial.
How portfolio-wide screening affects your applications
When we say a PMC shares screening data portfolio-wide, we mean: if you apply at any of their properties and get denied, that decision is stored against your profile in their system. Apply at a Greystar mid-rise in Sugar Land after being denied at a Greystar garden-style in The Woodlands, and the same SafeRent flag follows you.
This is why the “just apply everywhere” approach burns money. Ten Greystar applications across Houston, DFW, and Austin produce one Greystar decision. Ten different-PMC applications produce ten independent decisions.
The first move Texas Eviction Friendly Apartments makes for any client who has been denied is to check which PMCs have already screened them. Then we route to different PMCs or independent operators for the next round.
When a PMC denial record might reset
- Guarantor-backed applications: some PMCs will approve with a guarantor after previously denying without one
- Time gap: 12+ months since the prior denial with clean rental history and paid balance can sometimes reset
- Different tier: some PMCs run different rules for their Class-A vs mid-market portfolios
Independent operators, non-PMC-owned properties, always evaluate independently.
How we route around denied PMC portfolios
- We ask which properties have already denied you (your adverse action notice names the screening company - SafeRent, CoreLogic, or TransUnion SmartMove - which tells us the PMC)
- We identify which PMCs those denials came from
- We route your next applications to PMCs you have not yet been screened by, or to independent operators in submarkets like Pearland, Round Rock, or New Braunfels where owner-managed communities are more common
- We match your file (eviction age, balance status, income) against each candidate PMC’s known criteria
- We verify current policy at the specific property before you apply
Find property management companies that accept your eviction
That is the question we answer for you specifically. As of 2026, the list changes weekly as PMCs across Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio, and Fort Worth update their screening criteria. Fill out the form above and a licensed Texas real estate agent (TREC #679806) will call you within 2 hours with the properties in your target city that will approve your specific file.