Full lifecycle10+ services in-house
From your first listing to the day you sell, the same team runs marketing, leasing, maintenance, accounting, and the brokerage work behind buying, building, and selling investment property.
The lifecycle
7 stagesWhere most owners get burned
Vacancy bleed, weak screening, the wrong tenant — gone.
Marketing that converts. Screenings that protect you. Legal contracts.
Almost every owner who calls us is dealing with the same three things — a vacant home draining cash, a screening process they can't trust, or a tenant they wish they hadn't picked. So we built our entire leasing engine to crush that fear.
Based on a $2,250/mo home — the typical B/CS single-family rental. Days on market is the single biggest lever on your annual yield.
Every step from first photo to signed lease, run in-house by people who've done it 200+ times a year for a decade.
Pro photos, video, conversion-focused listing copy, MLS reach, agent network, and wide syndication. No advertising upcharges. Optional sponsored campaigns available.
Identity, income, employment, prior rental history, credit, eviction, criminal, and animal records. You have final approval on every applicant.
All forms based on Texas Association of Realtors® promulgated forms. E-sign leases. Move-in coordination without office visits.
Volume at the top, ruthless screening in the middle, one signed lease at the bottom. You approve every applicant before we move forward.
Transferring responsibility
Day-to-day, off your plate.
Rent collection. 24/7 maintenance triage. Lease renewals. Monthly statements. Vendor coordination. Eviction support.
Rent collection & payouts
Mobile and online payments + cash payment options at thousands of US locations. ACH direct deposit by the 15th. Clean monthly statements.
Direct vendor billing
Vendors bill owners directly for maintenance, repairs, and cleaning — guaranteed zero markup from us.
Real-time analytics, income reports, document storage, and direct communication with your assigned property manager.
Pre-dispatch troubleshooting saves you unnecessary trip costs (we ask for photos and check breakers/filters first). After-hours real triage team — not voicemail.
Extensive Texas-wide network from our work in subdivision development, new construction, and remodeling.
Zero markup · billed directA-Z process management. Notices issued by the 3rd of the month for non-payment. We handle the rest.
A–Z process managementThe line item every other PM marks up
In-house triage. Zero markup. 24/7.
Most managers profit on every truck roll. We don't roll a truck unless we have to — pre-dispatch triage resolves roughly a third of tickets before a tech ever gets in a van, and when one does, the vendor bills you direct on real letterhead. No markup, no padded hours, no hidden trip fee. Provable on every statement.
Three numbers that decide whether maintenance drains your yield or protects it.
of requests resolved by triage — before a tech is ever dispatched
markup on vendor invoices — vendor bills you direct, every time
in-house emergency team — a real triage tech, not voicemail
Most tickets stop at step 2. Only the ones that actually need a tech reach step 4.
Issue submitted in seconds via online or mobile app — with photos required.
Breakers, filters, leaks, reset buttons — we troubleshoot live before anyone gets dispatched.
We confirm the actual problem and the right scope — not a guess from a phone call.
Right vendor, right tools. Vendor bills you direct. You're informed every step.
Vendors invoice you, not us. You see the real number on real letterhead. We never touch the invoice — so we can't pad it.
Years of subdivision development, new construction, and remodel work earned us pricing our owners inherit. Cheaper than calling vendors yourself.
No markup on trips, parts, or hours. Our only upside is keeping you as a long-term client — so we save you money on purpose.
Active leak, no AC in a Texas summer, lockout at midnight — handled the second it comes in. Most after-hours calls still resolve without a truck. When one rolls, the vendor invoices you direct.
Capital
Two pillars, one purpose: free up the cash you need to grow. We'll literally front you the entire lease upfront when you need liquidity now — no other property manager in the Brazos Valley does this. And when it's time for a bigger move, we open the door to the lenders who actually fund landlords here.
11 months of rent in your account this week — not next year. We literally front you the full lease term so you can move on what matters now.
90%
Of the lease, fronted
0
Other BCS PMs offering it
1-2 Days
To funding — not months
Liquidity for a major repair. A down payment on the next property. A bridge between deals. Whatever the reason you need cash now, you don't have to sell the asset to get it — we hand you the lease in one check and collect rent on the back end as usual.
Step 1
Qualify
Quick review of the property and lease.
Step 2
We fund
Lump sum hits your account in days.
Step 3
Collect as normal
Tenant pays us, you keep the runway.
Our clients get a private bench of lenders — local banks, private money, mortgage and asset-based — competing for your deal. Better terms. Faster yes. No cold-calling loan officers who've never funded a rental.
On the bench
Buying the next rental. Refi'ing out of hard money. Pulling equity to scale. One call — we put you in front of the lender who says yes.
Buy or build
You don't find deals on Zillow. You find them through agents who think like investors — or you build exactly what you want from the ground up. Either way, you hand us the keys at closing and we start collecting rent.
Path A · Buy
Hometown Realty agents think like landlords — they source on-market and off-market deals, run the numbers, and close. Then it rolls straight into management without you lifting a finger.
→ Same Ryan walks you through it
See the buy pathPath B · Build
NewPhase Home Builders — five generations in the Brazos Valley — constructs rental-ready homes on your lot or ours. You get a brand-new asset with a warranty and no surprises.
→ Same Ryan walks you through it
See the build pathThe Hometown Investment Desk
Most owners shop for their next rental alone — Zillow tabs and cold calls to listing agents who don't know rentals. Hometown owners get a buy-side desk on the inside that finds the deal, runs real numbers, and hands the keys straight to your property manager.
2025 Agent of the Year · Top 3% in Brazos County — by total homes sold
Off-market deals surfaced first — from our owner network, builder pipeline, and agents in the field
ROI run on rents we actually collect — not a guess — what the house next door is leased for today
One team from buy → manage → sell — same Ryan, no handoff, no re-onboarding
Your buy-side agent
Ryan
Owner · Hometown Management, Realty & NewPhase
2025 Agent of the Year · Top 3% · Brazos County
Prefer to call? (979) 366-3500
Informational only — not tax, legal, or investment advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Consult your CPA and a licensed advisor before making decisions.
Or build from scratch
When Ryan puts on his NewPhase Home Builders hat, he's the same person who manages your portfolio — now walking the lot, choosing the plan, and standing behind a 10-year structural warranty on every home.
Five generations building in BCS — same family, same town, since the early 1900s
10-year structural warranty — included on every NewPhase home — in writing
Build on your land or ours — turnkey lots in active Bryan/College Station neighborhoods
Rental-ready handoff — Hometown Management takes over the day it closes
Your builder contact
Ryan
Owner · NewPhase Home Builders
Same number, same person — walks every NewPhase build personally.
Prefer to call? (979) 366-3500
Exit
Same team, same file, same Ryan. He managed your property. Now he lists it, markets it, and closes it — with 1031 exchange support if you're rolling into the next deal.
Your property manager hands the file straight to your listing agent at Hometown Realty. No starting over, no re-explaining the property.
We coordinate showings around the active lease, or time the listing to a planned move-out so the home shows at its best.
Roll the proceeds straight into your next deal with our investment-focused agents. One team for the sale and the next purchase.
Your listing agent
Ryan
Owner · Hometown Management, Realty & NewPhase · Backed by our in-house team
"By the time you're ready to sell, I already know the property better than anyone — every repair, every tenant, every lease. Nothing to onboard. We just go list it."
Ryan + our in-house team, all three phases
Buy → manage → build → sell. You don't get handed off. Ryan stays on the file from the first call to the closing table, with our in-house team executing every step.
The honest comparison
Self-managing can work — until one bad tenant or one missed compliance step erases a year of returns. Here's how the math actually shakes out.
You just saw the full lifecycle
The fit check is the actual first step — a 2-minute owner questionnaire. We review the same day and only reach out when we know we can help.
or call (979) 366-3500 — responses within 1 business day.