Services · Self-Employed Apartment Search
An Apartment Search Built Around a 1099, Not a Pay Stub
You earn well. You also cannot produce the one document every leasing portal asks for first — a pay stub — because nobody issues you one. The problem is not your income. It is that most screening systems were written for W-2 employees, and a strong Schedule C fed into the wrong formula reads as a weak file.
Free to renters — the community pays our referral fee, and your rent is identical either way.
$0
What renters pay us — the community pays the referral fee
1 day
Target from first call to your first written list
40+
Communities on our income-policy tracker
In writing
How every income policy is verified before you apply
Why this matters
What it costs to do nothing
Applying blind is expensive in a specific way: application and admin fees are charged per community, and they are not refunded when a screening system shrugs at an owner draw. Worse than the fees is the time — every wrong application in San Antonio costs days while your move date holds still. The fix is boring and effective: know the written income policy before the fee, not after.
Why clients choose us for self-employed apartment search
- We keep a running tracker of 40+ San Antonio communities and what each written policy actually accepts from self-employed applicants — bank statements, tax-return averages, CPA letters, or prepaid terms.
- Policies get verified with the leasing office, in writing, before you pay an application fee — not quoted from a portal listing that predates the current management company.
- Your list is matched to how your income arrives: owner draws read differently from 1099 deposits, and both read differently from commission checks. We sort targets by which formula favors your pattern.
- The service costs you $0. The community pays our referral fee, your rent is identical either way, and we explain that arithmetic once so you never wonder what the catch is.
The practical answer
The shape of it: one conversation about budget, timing, areas, and how your income arrives — then a written shortlist, targeted within a business day, of communities whose current criteria have a route for your file. For each target you get the documentation it expects and how its formula computes your income, so you tour with the paperwork question already answered. Approval decisions always belong to each community; what we control is that you only apply where the written policy gives your file a fair read.
Common questions
I’m self-employed with strong income. Why do leasing offices make it hard?
Because most screening formulas were written for salaried applicants: gross pay, times a multiple, done. Self-employed income needs interpretation — deposits, deductions, averages — and many offices simply route anything without a pay stub to a slower manual review. We aim you at the offices whose written policy already says how they handle it.
What documents will I actually need?
It varies by community, which is the point of checking first. The common asks: recent bank statements, one or two years of tax returns, sometimes a profit and loss statement or a CPA letter. We tell you the exact set for each target before you apply, so you assemble it once.
Can you promise I’ll be approved?
No — and be wary of anyone who does. Screening decisions belong to each community. What we do is verify, in writing, that a community’s policy accepts your kind of documentation before you spend an application fee finding out.
What does this cost me?
Nothing. Apartment communities pay locators a referral fee when a renter we send signs a lease, and your rent is the same whether we are involved or not. That fee is disclosed, and it is the whole business model.
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Your income is real. Make the paperwork read that way.
Tell us your budget, your timing, and how the money arrives — 1099s, owner draws, commissions. We come back with communities whose written policies already have a route for it.