Rental Property Rules in Texas (2026)

Texas law forbids cities from adopting rent control. A municipality may not establish rent control unless its governing…

Rent control is preempted statewide. TX Local Government Code 214.902 prohibits Texas cities from enacting rent control…

Arlington has NO local rent control ordinance. Tex. Local Gov't Code § 214.902 preempts Texas cities from enacting rent…

Baytown has no rent control ordinance. Texas Government Code Section 214.902 preempts all local rent control. Landlords…

Bellaire has no rent control ordinance. Texas state law under Government Code Section 214.902 prohibits municipalities…

Brownsville sets no limit on rent or rent increases. Texas Local Government Code § 214.902 lets a city adopt rent…

Rent control is prohibited in Texas by state law (TX Property Code Section 214.902). Conroe landlords may raise rent by…

Converse has no rent control. TX Local Gov Code 214.902 preempts cities from enacting rent control absent a…

Texas state law prohibits local rent control ordinances. Corpus Christi has no rent control or rent stabilization…

Dallas has NO local rent control ordinance and is preempted from passing one by Tex. Local Gov't Code § 214.902, which…

Denton does not have rent control or rent stabilization ordinances. Texas Local Government Code Section 214.902…

Rent control is prohibited in Denton County and throughout Texas. Texas Local Government Code Section 214.902 expressly…

DeSoto does not have rent control, and Texas law prohibits any Texas city from adopting rent control. Texas Local…

Texas law preempts rent control statewide and Euless imposes no rent caps; TX Local Government Code 214.902 allows rent…

Grapevine does not have rent control. Texas state law (Local Government Code 214.902) preempts Texas cities from…

No rent control exists in Guadalupe County or in Seguin, Schertz, and Cibolo. Texas Local Government Code 214.902 lets…

Rent control is prohibited statewide in Texas under Texas Property Code Chapter 214. Harris County cannot impose rent…

Humble does not have rent control. Texas Government Code Section 214.902 preempts local governments from adopting rent…

La Porte has no rent control ordinance. Texas state law preempts local rent control measures. Landlords may set and…

Texas law prohibits municipalities from enacting rent control ordinances. League City has no rent control, rent…

Little Elm has no rent control. Texas state law preempts all municipalities from enacting ordinances that regulate the…

Mansfield does not impose rent control. Texas Local Government Code 214.902 preempts most local rent regulation…

Mesquite has no rent control. Texas state law preempts municipalities from limiting residential rents except in a…

Rent control is prohibited statewide under Texas Local Government Code §214.902. Montgomery County and its cities…

Texas Local Government Code Section 214.902 preempts cities from enacting rent control, so North Richland Hills does…

Rent control is prohibited statewide in Texas under Property Code Chapter 214. Pasadena cannot impose rent limits…

Plano has NO local rent control ordinance. Tex. Local Gov't Code § 214.902 preempts Texas cities from enacting rent…

Texas Local Government Code 214.902 preempts rent control; Richardson may not cap rents or annual increases on private…

Texas law lets San Angelo's city council adopt rent control only after finding a housing emergency caused by a declared…

San Antonio has NO local rent control ordinance. Tex. Local Gov't Code § 214.902 preempts any Texas municipality from…

Rent control is prohibited statewide under Texas Local Government Code Section 214.902. Tarrant County and its cities…

Tyler has no rent control. Texas Local Government Code Section 214.902 bars municipalities from capping rents except…

Rent control does not exist in unincorporated Williamson County. Texas Local Government Code §214.902 bars any city or…

Austin City Code Chapter 4-14 (Ord. 20221027-023, Oct. 2022) requires landlords with 5+ units to give a 7-day notice of…

Carrollton follows state landlord-tenant law for evictions. Landlords must follow proper notice procedures but may not…

Before filing an eviction suit in Killeen, a landlord must give a tenant under a written lease or oral rental agreement…

Mcallen follows state landlord-tenant law for evictions. Landlords must follow proper notice procedures but may not…

Texas has no just-cause eviction requirement, and Midland has not enacted one; state law fills the gap. Texas Property…

Texas does not require just cause for eviction. Tarrant County landlords may end month-to-month tenancies with 30-day…

Abilene follows state landlord-tenant law for evictions. Landlords must follow proper notice procedures but may not…

Beaumont follows state landlord-tenant law for evictions. Landlords must follow proper notice procedures but may not…

College Station follows state landlord-tenant law for evictions. Landlords must follow proper notice procedures but may…

Allen follows Texas state eviction law under Property Code Chapter 24. Texas is a landlord-friendly state with no…

Amarillo has NO local just-cause eviction ordinance. Texas is a no-cause termination state under Tex. Prop. Code §…

Arlington has NO local just-cause eviction ordinance. Texas is a no-cause termination state under Tex. Prop. Code §…

Baytown does not have a just-cause eviction ordinance. All evictions follow Texas Property Code Chapter 24 and Chapter…

Texas does not require just-cause for eviction. Landlords in Bexar County can end a month-to-month tenancy with 30 days…

Brownsville has no just-cause eviction ordinance. Texas Property Code Chapter 24 controls: after a lease ends or rent…

Corpus Christi does not have a just-cause eviction ordinance. Texas law does not require landlords to state a cause for…

No just-cause eviction protections. Texas is a landlord-friendly state with no county or state just-cause eviction…

Denton does not have a just cause eviction ordinance. Texas law does not require landlords to provide a specific reason…

Denton County and Texas do not have just cause eviction requirements. Texas is a landlord-friendly state where a…

Texas does not have a just-cause eviction law, and DeSoto has not adopted local just-cause protections. A Texas…

El Paso has NO local just-cause eviction ordinance. Texas is a no-cause termination state under Tex. Prop. Code §…

Euless has no just cause eviction ordinance. Landlord-tenant rules are governed by Texas Property Code Chapter 92…

Fort Worth has NO local just-cause eviction ordinance. Texas is a no-cause termination state under Tex. Prop. Code §…

Frisco has NO local just-cause eviction ordinance. Texas is a no-cause termination state under Tex. Prop. Code §…

Garland has NO local just-cause eviction ordinance. Texas is a no-cause termination state under Tex. Prop. Code §…

Grand Prairie has NO local just-cause eviction ordinance. Texas is a no-cause termination state under Tex. Prop. Code §…

Texas has no just-cause eviction law. A Guadalupe County landlord may end a tenancy without stating a reason. Property…

Haltom City has no just-cause eviction ordinance. Evictions follow Texas Property Code Chapter 24 and Chapter 92, which…

Texas has no just-cause eviction protections. Harris County landlords can terminate month-to-month leases with proper…

Houston has NO local just-cause eviction ordinance. Texas is a no-cause termination state under Tex. Prop. Code §…

Humble does not have a just cause eviction ordinance. Texas follows standard landlord-tenant law allowing eviction for…

Irving has NO local just-cause eviction ordinance. Texas is a no-cause termination state under Tex. Prop. Code §…

Keller does not impose just-cause eviction requirements on landlords. Texas Property Code Chapters 92 and 24 govern…

La Porte does not have a just-cause eviction ordinance. Texas law allows landlords to terminate month-to-month…

Laredo follows Texas Property Code Chapter 24 eviction procedures with no local just-cause requirement. Landlords may…

League City does not have a just-cause eviction ordinance. Texas is a landlord-friendly state where evictions follow…

Little Elm has no just-cause eviction ordinance. Texas law allows landlords to end a tenancy at lease expiration or…

Live Oak does not have a just-cause eviction ordinance. Texas landlords may terminate month-to-month tenancies or…

Lubbock has NO local just-cause eviction ordinance. Texas is a no-cause termination state under Tex. Prop. Code §…

McKinney has NO local just-cause eviction ordinance. Texas is a no-cause termination state under Tex. Prop. Code §…

Mesquite has no just-cause eviction ordinance. Texas follows a landlord-friendly eviction process allowing non-renewal…

Texas has no just-cause eviction requirement. Montgomery County landlords may terminate month-to-month leases without…

Texas has no just-cause eviction protections. Pasadena landlords can terminate month-to-month leases with proper notice…

Plano has NO local just-cause eviction ordinance. Texas is a no-cause termination state under Tex. Prop. Code § 91.001…

Texas does not recognize just-cause eviction; Richardson landlords may decline to renew a lease for any lawful…

Texas gives San Angelo tenants no just-cause eviction protection. A landlord may end a month-to-month tenancy or…

San Antonio has NO local just-cause eviction ordinance. Texas is a no-cause termination state under Tex. Prop. Code §…

Sugar Land does not have a just-cause eviction ordinance. Texas is a landlord-friendly state where evictions follow…

Texas law does not require a landlord to prove cause to end a tenancy. In unincorporated Travis County, Tex. Prop. Code…

Texas gives Tyler tenants no just-cause eviction protection. A landlord may end a month-to-month tenancy or decline…

Texas has no just-cause eviction rule. A landlord in unincorporated Williamson County may end a tenancy without stating…

Baytown requires every multi-family complex of three or more units to register annually with the chief building…

Every single-family and multi-family rental in Carrollton must be registered annually with the Director of Code…

Celina requires every rental dwelling owner to obtain an annual rental registration permit before renting the unit.

Grand Prairie requires every apartment complex operator to file for an annual operating certification with a $150 fee…

Every multi-family rental complex in Lewisville must carry a current city license under City Code § 4-206, renewed…

Longview requires a city-issued multi-family dwelling license before anyone can own, operate, or manage a rental…

San Marcos requires owners to register any long-term rental unit with the city before renting it out for 30 or more…

Renting out a house, condo, or apartment unit in Sugar Land without a city rental license is a criminal offense under…

Cedar Hill requires single-family and multifamily rental properties to register with the city's rental program and pass…

DeSoto has implemented a rental property registration program to ensure rental dwellings meet safety and habitability…

Houston requires owners of multi-family rental buildings that rack up ten or more code citations in a six-month span to…

League City requires STR operators to register with the city and obtain a $300/year STR permit under Sec. 125-3.14.18…

Missouri City requires every owner of a residential rental property to register the unit annually with the city and pay…

Pearland requires short-term rental operators to obtain a city permit, register through GovOS, pass a Fire Marshal…

Pharr requires landlords of multi-family rental complexes to register annually with the building official and pay a $50…

Rowlett requires owners and landlords to register every single-family, duplex, or townhouse rental with the city…

Austin requires registration for short-term rentals (STRs) under City Code Title 25, Chapter 25-2, Article 4…

College Station may require landlords to register rental properties with the city and maintain compliance with housing…

Dallas City Code Chapter 27 requires registration of single-family rental properties through the Single Family Rental…

Killeen may require landlords to register rental properties with the city and maintain compliance with housing codes…

Richmond's Chapter 18 Article X requires owners of single-family and multifamily rental properties to register units…

Abilene may require landlords to register rental properties with the city and maintain compliance with housing codes…

Bellaire requires rental properties to comply with the city's certificate of occupancy and property maintenance…

Bexar County does not require landlords to register rental properties. Individual cities within the county (such as San…

Brownsville does not register, license, or routinely inspect long-term rental housing. The only rental registry in the…

Fort Worth does not require a general rental property registration or licensing program. Unlike some Texas cities, Fort…

Frisco does not operate a general rental registration program. Long-term rental landlords are not required to register…

Unincorporated Harris County has no rental property registration requirement. Landlords are not required to register…

Humble does not require residential rental property registration. Texas does not mandate municipal rental registries…

La Porte does not currently require landlords to register rental properties with the city. There is no mandatory rental…

Laredo has no citywide rental registration program for long-term residential rentals. Short-term rentals and hotels are…

Little Elm does not currently require landlords to register rental properties with the town. There is no mandatory…

Mcallen may require landlords to register rental properties with the city and maintain compliance with housing codes…

McKinney does not require general rental property registration. Short-term rentals (under 30 days) require separate…

San Antonio does not have a comprehensive rental property registration program for standard residential rentals…

Austin's Tenant Relocation Assistance Ordinance, codified at City Code Chapter 25-1 Subchapter F, requires landlords to…

Texas has no statewide tenant relocation assistance law, and Dallas has not adopted a formal relocation-payment…

Texas has no statewide tenant relocation assistance law, and Dallas County has no county-level relocation ordinance…

Texas has no statewide tenant relocation assistance statute, and Fort Worth has not adopted a relocation-payment…

Frisco does not require landlords to pay relocation assistance when ending tenancies, demolishing buildings, or…

Lubbock does not require landlords to pay relocation assistance when tenants are displaced by no-fault evictions…

Travis County does not require landlords to pay tenant relocation assistance for no-fault evictions, demolitions, or…

Texas places no statutory limit on how much a landlord can charge for a security deposit. However, the landlord must…

Arlington landlords follow Texas Property Code §92.103, which requires return of a tenants security deposit within 30…

Bexar County rental security deposits are governed by Texas Property Code 92.101 through 92.109. Landlords must refund…

Corpus Christi landlords follow Texas Property Code §§92.101 to 92.109. Deposits must be refunded within 30 days of…

Texas Property Code Sections 92.101 through 92.110 set statewide security-deposit rules. Landlords must return the…

Texas Property Code Sections 92.101 through 92.110 set statewide security-deposit rules for all Dallas County rentals…

Texas Property Code Sections 92.101 through 92.110 set statewide security-deposit rules. Fort Worth landlords must…

Frisco landlords must follow Texas Property Code 92.101 through 92.109 on security deposits. Refunds are due within 30…

Texas Property Code Sections 92.101 through 92.110 set statewide security-deposit rules for all Harris County rentals…

Texas Property Code Section 92.103 requires landlords to refund a tenant's security deposit within 30 days of move-out…

Texas Property Code section 92.103 requires Lubbock landlords to refund security deposits within 30 days of move-out…

Texas Property Code Sections 92.101 through 92.110 set statewide security-deposit rules for San Antonio landlords…

Texas Property Code 92.103 requires landlords to return tenant security deposits, with itemized deductions, within 30…

Dallas County does not regulate cash-for-keys voluntary buyout agreements. Texas Property Code Chapter 92 governs…

Lubbock has no ordinance regulating cash-for-keys agreements between landlords and tenants. Such buyouts are negotiated…

Travis County and Texas law impose no rules on cash-for-keys agreements. Landlords and tenants may negotiate any sum…

Arlington does not require just cause for eviction at lease end. Landlords may decline to renew month-to-month or…

Texas Property Code Chapter 24 allows Austin landlords to terminate month-to-month tenancies or refuse to renew…

Bexar County landlords can decline to renew leases for any non-discriminatory reason, with no requirement to show…

Corpus Christi landlords may decline to renew a lease without stating cause once the term ends. Texas does not require…

Texas allows landlords to end fixed-term leases at expiration and to terminate month-to-month tenancies with at least…

Texas allows landlords to end fixed-term leases at expiration and to terminate month-to-month tenancies with at least…

Texas allows Fort Worth landlords to end fixed-term leases at expiration and to terminate month-to-month tenancies with…

Frisco does not require just-cause for ending a tenancy. A landlord may decline to renew a lease without stating a…

Texas allows landlords to end fixed-term leases at expiration and to terminate month-to-month tenancies with at least…

Texas Property Code Chapter 24 allows landlords to terminate month-to-month tenancies or refuse to renew fixed-term…

Lubbock landlords may decline to renew a fixed-term lease for any non-discriminatory reason. Texas Property Code allows…

Texas allows landlords to end fixed-term leases at expiration and to terminate month-to-month tenancies with at least…

Travis County allows no-fault, end-of-lease non-renewal under Texas Property Code Chapter 24. Landlords need only…

San Antonio has no comprehensive tenant anti-harassment ordinance like Los Angeles or Seattle. Tenants rely on Texas…

Texas Property Code Section 92.331 prohibits landlord retaliation, and Austin City Code Chapter 5-2 forbids housing…

Dallas does not have a comprehensive tenant anti-harassment ordinance like Los Angeles or Seattle. Tenants rely on…

Dallas County has not adopted a comprehensive tenant anti-harassment ordinance. Tenants countywide rely on Texas…

Lubbock has no city tenant anti-harassment ordinance. Texas Property Code sections 92.0081 and 92.331 prohibit…

Arlington has no city-specific tenant anti-harassment ordinance. Tenants rely on Texas Property Code §92.0081…

Corpus Christi has no dedicated tenant anti-harassment ordinance. Tenants rely on Texas Property Code prohibitions on…

Fort Worth has no comprehensive tenant anti-harassment ordinance. Tenants rely on Texas Property Code Section 92.331…

Texas Property Code Section 92.331 prohibits landlord retaliation for a narrow set of tenant actions, but Houston has…

Travis County has no dedicated tenant anti-harassment ordinance. Tenants rely on Texas Property Code retaliation…

Dallas amended its Anti-Discrimination Ordinance Chapter 46 in 2020 to ban housing discrimination based on lawful…

Arlington does not prohibit landlord refusal of Section 8 housing-choice vouchers or other lawful sources of income…

Bexar County does not prohibit landlords from refusing Section 8 housing choice vouchers or other income sources. Texas…

Corpus Christi landlords may legally refuse to accept Section 8 vouchers and other government rental subsidies. Texas…

Texas has no statewide source of income protection, and Dallas County has not adopted a county-level rule covering its…

Unlike Dallas and Austin, Fort Worth has not amended its Human Relations ordinance to prohibit housing discrimination…

Frisco landlords may legally refuse to accept Housing Choice Voucher (Section 8) applicants. Texas Local Government…

Texas has no statewide source of income protection, and Harris County has not adopted a county-level rule covering its…

Houston has not adopted a source-of-income antidiscrimination ordinance, so private landlords may legally refuse…

Lubbock has no source-of-income protection. Landlords may legally refuse Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers and other…

Texas has no statewide source-of-income protection. San Antonio Fair Housing Code Chapter 2-92 covers traditional…

Texas Local Government Code 250.007 prohibits cities and counties from requiring landlords to accept Section 8 housing…

Dallas Code Sec. 20A-4.1 creates a voluntary program, not a mandate, tying city housing subsidies and financial awards…

Texas has no analog to Californias AB 1482 statewide rent cap, so Arlington landlords face no disclosure requirement…

Arlington tenants were briefly protected by the federal CDC and CARES Act eviction moratoriums from 2020 through August…

Under Tex. Prop. Code § 92.052 a landlord must make a diligent effort to repair conditions that materially affect an…

Amarillo declares any structure unfit for human habitation, structurally unsafe, without adequate egress, or an…

Carrollton's Single- and Multi-Family Housing Code sets binding habitability standards for every rental: minimum 70…

Celina requires a city safety and property-maintenance inspection of every rental dwelling at each tenant change, tied…

San Antonio adopts the San Antonio Property Maintenance Code as its minimum housing standard under Sec. 6-51, and…

Texarkana runs the 2015 International Property Maintenance Code on every rental and scores apartment complexes on 14…

Austin's Property Maintenance Code sets hard temperature floors and ceilings for rented housing: residential heating…

Baytown multi-family landlords must self-inspect every dwelling unit at least once a year against the…

Bryan orders any structure, rental or owner-occupied, that is dilapidated, substandard, or otherwise unfit for human…

Cedar Park landlords must supply heat maintaining at least 65°F in habitable rooms, bathrooms, and toilet rooms of…

Corpus Christi enforces habitability through its adopted Property Maintenance Code. Owners must keep rental structures…

Chapter 27 of the Dallas Code establishes minimum property standards requiring rental units to be safe, sanitary, and…

City code requires every dwelling unit to have its own working bathtub or shower, lavatory, water closet, and kitchen…

Edinburg enforces the 2018 International Property Maintenance Code as its citywide habitability standard, requiring…

El Paso enforces habitability through Chapter 18.50, which adopts the 2021 International Property Maintenance Code with…

Farmersville's Minimum Building and Property Standards article requires every owner to keep a habitable structure…

Fort Worth's minimum building standards code makes owners and landlords responsible for keeping every rental in livable…

Frisco Code of Ordinances Section 18-423 sets the minimum habitability standards every multi-family dwelling complex…

Landlords in Fulshear must supply heat to rented dwelling units from October 1 through March 31, keeping habitable…

Chapter 32, Article I sets minimum property standards for rental housing, covering structural, plumbing, electrical…

Georgetown's Property Maintenance Code requires any landlord who furnishes heat to a rental unit to supply it…

Grand Prairie's housing code defines 'habitability' to mean every apartment, hotel or motel room, and rental building…

Harlingen adopts the International Property Maintenance Code as the citywide minimum standard for occupied buildings…

City ordinance sets minimum habitability standards for multi-family rental buildings of three or more units, requiring…

Killeen's Property Maintenance Code, adopted from the 2024 International Property Maintenance Code, requires any…

Laredo's substandard and dangerous buildings article declares a dwelling a public nuisance if water heating facilities…

Leander landlords who agree to furnish heat must keep habitable rooms, bathrooms, and toilet rooms at a minimum 65°F…

Lewisville's Property Maintenance Code requires landlords to supply heat maintaining at least 68°F in every habitable…

Longview requires landlords to heat rental units to at least 68°F from November through March under the city's amended…

Midland's Minimum Housing Standards Code sets binding habitability rules for every rental dwelling, working plumbing…

Mission adopts the 1997 Standard Housing Code as the minimum property-maintenance standard for every dwelling in the…

New Braunfels declares any unsafe, unsanitary, or uninhabitable building illegal and orders it repaired, secured, or…

Odessa can order the vacation, repair, securing, or demolition of any building, rental or owner-occupied, that is…

Pearland requires every building, including rental housing, to meet minimum livability standards under the city's…

Pharr's Housing Code sets minimum habitability standards for rental units, working plumbing, heat, hot water, and…

Plano's amended 2024 International Property Maintenance Code requires landlords to heat rental dwellings to at least…

Rockwall's Property Maintenance Code requires every residential rental unit to have working plumbing, hot and cold…

Rowlett requires every rental house, duplex, or townhouse to be safe and habitable, fully served by utilities…

San Angelo makes it unlawful to occupy a structure that lacks working sewage disposal, a connected toilet, potable…

San Marcos enforces rental habitability through the citywide 2021 International Property Maintenance Code, adopted by…

Single-family, condominium, and multifamily rentals in Sugar Land need a Residential Rental Property License, and the…

Landlords in Taylor must keep rented dwelling units at a minimum 68 degrees Fahrenheit in habitable rooms, bathrooms…

Temple enforces habitability through the 2009 International Property Maintenance Code, adopted citywide with local…

Victoria enforces the International Property Maintenance Code for the upkeep, occupancy, and maintenance of all…

Waco's local amendments to the International Property Maintenance Code force landlords to keep every rented dwelling…

Wichita Falls code lets the city order any dwelling that is dilapidated, unsanitary, or lacks essential amenities…

Irving enforces building and housing standards for all rental properties. Texas Property Code Ch. 92 sets landlord…

Mesquite enforces the International Property Maintenance Code plus Texas Property Code Ch. 92, requiring landlords to…

Rental habitability in Richardson is governed by Texas Property Code Chapter 92 and the city's property maintenance…

Under Tex. Prop. Code § 92.019 a residential late fee must be reasonable and may be charged only if written in the…

Under Tex. Prop. Code § 91.001, either party may end a month-to-month tenancy by giving notice, and the tenancy ends on…

Under Tex. Prop. Code § 24.005, a Texas landlord must give a defaulting or holdover tenant at least three days' written…

In Texas a squatter can claim title only through adverse possession, with periods that shorten as the claim…