For rent houses in DFW seem to stay way longer than before. I put a house for rent three weeks again. I got far fewer inquiries than previous years. --108.221.xxx.xxx

Rents are high and a lot of landlords with tenants in place haven’t been raising their rents to market value, so the only ones moving are ones being made to move. --73.147.xxx.xx

However, if you really are getting nothing, perhaps try lowering the rent a bit and see if that makes a difference. $25 will change your results and the old retail trick of "ending with 99" actually works. Instead of $1200, you set the rent at $1195. --76.178.xxx.xxx

I am not raising my rents on existing tenants as much and I am still keeping my rents on upcoming availabilities a titch lower than my local counterparts. There's only so many tenants out there making enough to afford too-high rents and many of those people are buying houses. They rent until it becomes more economical to buy. Renting is supposed to be the cheaper option. It isn't in some places. --198.54.xxx.xxx

Same here. Good points made. --76.129.xxx.xx

But I am going to give it another week before I do. --107.147.xx.xx

Yes, As I said in another post, I only had 2 showings at a in 12 days!! May be 6 inquires total, most of them won't qualify any ways. I priced it well at slightly below market, great home. It is very cold in DFW!! good luck! --70.119.xxx.xx

I am in northern Tarrant county. I do agree it’s cooling off. My last vacancy I started out at $2300. Month in May, then started cutting until I hit $1995. Did a little math and saw that if I sold, I would clear more money if I bought CDs with my proceeds. Sold for $360k rather quickly, took what was left over after paying off the loan and cap gains and bought CDs. Looking forward to repeating this 20-25 times over the next few years. Property tax is high, insurance is outrageous, hvac rules and equipment doubling again soon. It’s time to get out. The economy is ruined and folks just can’t pay more then $2000 a month for rent anymore. --66.169.xxx.xxx

Insurance are through the roof and many companies are pulling out of DFW. I have received non-renewal notice even on my primary home. --70.119.xxx.xx

Lisa, I sent in $62 k for the cap gains, honestly it doesn’t hurt as bad as I thought it would. Lol. I paid it the next day after closing so as not to get used to having it for myself. ,. I too have gotten some non renewals on insurance . Too many hail storms in my area. --66.169.xxx.xxx

don’t price “below mkt” whatever that means. maintain rate integrity and hold on…dfw is a hot hot mkt with all the transplants & cos moving here. --107.116.xxx.xx

Homer, you are in Keller area, right? My house in Keller is priced well below market at $2100 after lowering it from $2200. Should I lower it to $2000? --108.221.xxx.xxx

Matt, I know keller very well, have more than dozen there. I watch the prices daily. Without too much detail, which one is yours? I think at least for mine, I need to be around $1850 ish…. Mostly small brick 3-2-2s 1200 sq ft ish --66.169.xxx.xxx

Matt…. Is it behind the HD. On B***** ? If so, I would go about $1950 on it. Also there is a Facebook group page for this area dedicated to rentals. Rent Houses, keller, Watauga,Nt Ft Worth. Give that a try. --66.169.xxx.xxx

Homer, Mine is in the north and it's over 2100 sqft/4bed. Thank you for the tip about FB. I will try facebook --131.107.xxx.xxx