Ziprent handles leasing, tenant screening, rent collection, maintenance coordination and statutory deposit accounting for Tomball owners — one flat monthly fee per property.
Tomball levies a municipal hotel occupancy tax of 7 percent, adopted by ordinance in 2006 and codified in Chapter 42, Article II of the city’s Code of Ordinances. On 3 July 2023 the city council went a step further and expanded its contract with Avenu to monitor and identify short-term rental properties operating in Tomball, on top of the hotel tax collection work Avenu already did.
The contract carried a $5,000 setup fee and an annual fee of $255 per property or a $15,000 minimum, whichever is greater, for a one-year term. City staff estimated 93 active short-term rental properties at an average nightly rate of $236.54 and 40 percent occupancy, projecting roughly $250,000 in hotel tax revenue. If you rent by the night in Tomball, assume the city already knows. Rentals of 30 consecutive days or more fall outside the tax entirely.
Texas Property Code 92.019 is the one lease clause most Tomball owners get wrong. You cannot charge a late fee unless any portion of the rent has remained unpaid two full days after the date rent was originally due. The fee is capped by building size: not more than 12 percent of the amount of rent for a structure containing four dwelling units or fewer, and not more than 10 percent for a structure with more than four.
On $1,600 rent in a single-family house that is $192 — not a flat $50 plus $15 a day compounding, which is where owners drift over the line. A landlord who violates the section is liable for $100, three times the amount of the late fee collected in violation, and the tenant’s attorney’s fees. Separately, section 24.005 requires at least three days’ written notice to vacate before you file a forcible detainer suit.
| Area | Typical rental stock | What owners ask about there |
|---|---|---|
| Old Town Tomball | Older bungalows and small homes near the depot and Main Street | Whether a nightly rental owes the city's 7% hotel occupancy tax |
| Villages of Northpointe / Northpointe East | 1990s–2000s detached family homes | HOA leasing caps and turnover timing around the Tomball ISD calendar |
| Inverness | Detached homes on larger wooded lots | Septic and well questions, and who maintains the acreage |
| Willowcreek Ranch | Large acreage estates, gated | Whether high-end stock leases when the citywide median is $1,245 |
| Saddlebrook Village / Village Creek | Detached homes and townhomes | Late-fee clauses that comply with the 12% cap in 92.019 |
| Memorial Springs / Lakewood Grove | Newer detached family homes | Minimum lease terms and HOA tenant registration requirements |
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4,282
Units Managed
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Tenant Placements
189,861
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$100 / month standard management for every additional property added.
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Ziprent is an all-in-one customer service platform that helps you balance everything your customers need to be happy.
Our payment processor issues an ACH direct from tenant to landlord, ensuring the fastest transmittance of rent in the industry. We believe in removing delays and barriers.
We provide tenants the ability to submit maintenance requests online. From there, we gather quotes from our network of qualified experts and coordinate the repair as quickly as possible.
Our customer support team is available 24/7 for you or your tenants. Whatever the issue, rest assured it will be handled with great detail and efficiency..
At any point in time, we will refund up to 3 months of property management fees if you are not satisfied with our services.
Class leading tenant placement service with an average time of 12 days to place a qualified tenant.
Coordinating schedules with prospective tenants is a thing of the past! With Ziprent, prospective tenants can select a time that works for them, and we will send them a unique code to open up a lockbox and view the property.
Our extensive partnership with income, credit, and background data providers ensures near-instant verification of tenant qualifications with the industry’s highest confidence level. In addition, our ZipScore tenant scoring system makes it easy for you to vet and approve prospective tenants.
You are in control. Specify custom lease parameters for your property and setting while having our system generate a comprehensive city, county, and state specific lease that protects you and your property. It is as easy as that.
We’ve partnered with over 20 listing sites, such as Zillow, Trulia, Hotpads, Zumper, Redfin, and Realtor.com, ensuring that your property receives the highest industry-wide exposure!
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Our current average time is 14-21 days but depending on price and location it can be anywhere between 3-20 days in general.
Tenants will submit their request via their online account. Our platform will automatically send out bid requests from our extensive vendor network. We will surface the bid to you for your approval and then coordinate with the vendor and tenant to get the issue resolved.
To date we have done on-demand without any major issues. We carry an additional $50k in liability insurance to cover any damages, beyond your coverage, that may occur. Should a key go missing, we will have the locks rekeyed at our cost.
Depends on the location of the property. But at the very least, it needs to be free of clutter and trash, it needs to have been professionally cleaned or cleaned to that quality. Flooring and paint go a long way in making a rental feel refreshed.
We can usually schedule to come out to take photos, do a walk-through and take keys within 24-48 hours. We prefer to take photos when the property is completely empty and move-in ready and can generally get a listing online within 24-48 hours of taking photos.
IOur property management contract can be used for both tenant placement and property management. Our property management fee is tied together with rent collection, so if we aren’t collecting rent through our platform then we aren’t charging our property management fee.
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