Dallas, TX

Social media for a North Texas property management firm with a slab, a storm season and a license

Four North Texas facts decide most of what a management firm can put on camera. Property management here sits under a real estate license, which settles who is allowed to say what a house should rent for. Expansive clay moves foundations, which turns a tenant's photograph of a hairline crack into a phone call from an owner in another state. Electricity comes from a retail provider the tenant has to choose, which is why move-in day stalls in the evening. And hail brings crews to the front porches of houses you manage, asking a tenant to sign something. None of those started as marketing problems, and all four are answered best on video.

In Texas the person explaining rent on camera has to be the right person

Property management here generally sits inside real estate licensing, so casting a video is a compliance decision before it is a creative one.

Leasing, quoting rents and negotiating on an owner's behalf are activities that typically require a license in this state, and advertising rules usually require the brokerage name to appear. Confirm the specifics with your broker and with the Texas Real Estate Commission before you publish anything.

The practical effect is a small cast. A maintenance coordinator can show you a water heater and a slab all day. The person saying what a house in Plano should rent for ought to be somebody who is allowed to say it.

So split the formats by who may speak. Licensed staff take anything about price, terms or the market. Everybody else takes process, repairs, turns and what a crew actually found that morning, which is most of the watchable material anyway.

Put the required brokerage identification into the profile and into a burned in caption template, so it survives a screenshot and does not disappear when somebody shares the clip without the caption box.

A tenant's photograph of a crack reaches your owner before your explanation does

Expansive clay moves foundations across North Texas, and the first an out of state owner hears about it is usually a picture with no context attached.

A door stops latching in August. The tenant photographs the gap, sends it with two words, and an owner in another state reads it as the house coming apart.

Shrink and swell is a documented regional engineering problem rather than local folklore, and it is seasonal. A dry August moves the ground one way, a wet spring moves it back, and a post-tension slab is designed with some of that movement in mind.

So the video worth having is the calm one, made long before anybody needs it. What gets photographed at move in, what a watering routine looks like around a Frisco slab in August, when a licensed engineer gets called and when nobody needs to.

Send it rather than improvise. A manager who answers that call by forwarding something they already made reads very differently from one talking a frightened owner down, and the same clip works for every owner who gets the same photograph next August.

Stop at what you document. Whether a particular slab has a problem is an engineer's answer, and a marketing video should never be the thing that concludes it.

Move-in day stalls on a retail electric provider nobody explained

Texas buys electricity from a retail provider the tenant chooses while the meter and the wires belong to the delivery utility, and new arrivals do not know that.

A tenant transferring in from another state expects to call the power company. There is no single power company to call. They pick a retail electric provider, Oncor owns the connection, and if nobody explained that in advance the lights are off on the day the truck arrives in Richardson.

The call lands on your maintenance line, in the evening, from somebody who has just driven across the country. It is also entirely preventable with one plain video.

Make the version you can attach to every lease. What the delivery utility does, what the retail provider does, when to start service so it is live for move in, and who to call when it is not.

Do not name a plan or print a rate. Offers change constantly, a recommendation ages badly, and the argument it eventually causes with a tenant is not worth the two minutes it saved them.

Owners watch this one as closely as tenants do, because a smooth move in is one of the few parts of your operation they can judge from another state.

A storm crew gets a signature on a porch that belongs to your owner

Hail creates an insurance mediated replacement market here, and the operators it attracts knock on the doors of houses you manage.

Somebody in a truck with out of state plates tells a tenant the roof is damaged and asks for a signature. The tenant is not the owner, does not know what the paper does, and often signs to end the conversation.

A firm can settle that in advance with two pieces of content. Publish how you choose a roofer and what documentation an owner should expect, and publish the standing rule that nobody at a property you manage signs anything handed to them at the door.

Aim each one at the right audience deliberately. Tenants need it in plain language and need it before a spring, not during one. Owners need to know the rule exists, because an owner in another state cannot police their own front porch from there.

Keep insurance out of your mouth beyond process. Coverage and claim handling vary, so describe what you inspect and what you photograph, and send owners to their own carrier for anything that decides money.

Everything that would be equally true for a manager in Ohio, consent, publishing rhythm, review replies and what deserves a budget, is written once at /industries/property-management/social-media, which keeps this page on Dallas, Fort Worth and the counties between them.

Questions we actually get

Who in our office is allowed to talk about rents and leasing on camera?: Generally the licensed staff, since those activities usually fall under real estate licensing in Texas and advertising rules typically call for brokerage identification. Confirm the specifics with your broker and the Texas Real Estate Commission. Unlicensed team members can still carry most of your content by showing repairs, turnovers and process rather than speaking to price, terms or what a house should rent for.
A tenant sent our owner a photo of a crack and now the owner wants an engineer. What should we have published?: The calm explanation, filmed in a quiet month. Expansive clay moves seasonally here, a dry August opens gaps that a wet spring closes again, and an owner who has never lived over shrink-swell soil has no reference for any of it. A short clip showing what you photograph at move in and what a watering routine looks like turns that call into a routine one. Leave the verdict on a specific slab to a licensed engineer.
Tenants keep calling on move-in evening because the power is off. Is that a video?: It is the single most useful video a North Texas manager can make. Explain that the tenant picks a retail electric provider, that Oncor owns the meter and the connection, and how far ahead service has to be started so the lights are on when the truck arrives. Attach it to every lease packet. Do not name a plan or a rate, because those change constantly and a stale recommendation becomes an argument you have to referee.
A restoration crew got a tenant to sign something at a house we manage. What do we publish?: The rule, plainly, to both audiences. Tenants should know before a spring that nobody at your properties signs anything handed to them at the door and that a knock gets forwarded to the office. Owners should know how you select a roofer and what documentation they will get. Describe what you inspect and photograph, and send anything about coverage to the owner's own carrier.
We say we cover the whole Metroplex. Should the feed say that too?: Only if the footage backs it up. There is an hour of freeway between the two downtowns and the housing stock does not match across it, so an agent in Fort Worth can place your clips by the rooflines and the street pattern before reading a word of the caption. Decide which half you genuinely staff. If the answer is both, somebody with a phone has to be standing in Tarrant County in the same week, not once a quarter when it occurs to you.

What is different here

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Written by KC Thompson, Morgul Marketing.

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