Rental Property Management Owner's Hub
Ashoka Lion provide superior property management and leasing services for landlords in the Houston and Dallas markets.
Our clients include the owner with a single home, International investors,, and owners with large rental portfolios. We offer a variety of services from full service property management, lease only management services, eviction services to help investors navigate owning rental property, and more.
Update : A new service that we are offering our landlords in this difficult period with COVID 19 is access to a platform to finance their make ready repairs with an unsecured personal loan. The application is reviewed by over 15 different lenders, giving you a larger pool of options. Check out this program if you are an owner facing large repairs on your property(s).
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Getting Started
Do I actually need a property manager, or can I self-manage?
Consider a manager if
you’d answer “yes” to most of these: Do you have a career or family obligations that limit the
time you can give to day-to-day issues? Do you struggle to track rental income/expenses?
Do you want to avoid chasing tenants for money, coordinating repairs on
holidays/weekends, handling move-in/move-out inspections yourself, dealing with 1099 tax
compliance, keeping up with changing landlord-tenant law, or showing a vacant unit
yourself? If most of these are “yes,” a property manager is likely worth the fee. If you
answered “no” across the board, self-managing may still make sense for you
What types of owners do you work with?
Single-home owners, international investors,
private investment funds, REITs, out-of-state investors, and owners with large rental
portfolios — both single-family and smaller multifamily properties.
What areas do you cover?
In Houston, roughly a 25-mile radius from downtown. In Dallas,
coverage is defined by specific named suburbs rather than a radius (e.g., Plano, Richardson,
Garland, Rockwall, Las Colinas) rather than a fixed mileage boundary. Full lists are available
on the Service Locations page.
Marketing & Filling Vacancies
How do you market my vacant property?
Listings go on the local MLS (Ashoka Lion is a
registered TX brokerage), syndicated through the Houston Association of Realtors
(marketed under “The Lion Real Estate Group”) or North Texas Real Estate Information
Systems (NTREIS) in Dallas. Listings also syndicate automatically through AppFolio to
multiple rental sites, plus direct posting to Zumper, Apartment.com, Facebook Marketplace,
YouTube, and a dedicated Facebook group for Houston leasing agents.
How is a multifamily property marketed differently?
Same core channels, plus physical
signage coordination at the property — something not typically needed for single-family
listings.
Tenant Screening
How thorough is your tenant screening?
It’s a 20-step process, including: two months of
paycheck stubs, current lease copy, ID verification, cross-checking the address on the ID
against the application, paycheck stubs, and credit report, landlord contact verification
(confirming actual ownership, not just a phone number), public-records search for criminal
history/liens/judgments, employer verification by both direct contact and an independent
Google search (to catch fabricated employer info), bank deposit verification for selfemployed applicants, and a manual income-to-rent ratio check (3x rent, verified against
actual paycheck stubs rather than just a stated number).
Is screening foolproof?
No — the site is explicit about this: “no screening is fool proof,” but
the process is designed to weed out applicants who are unlikely to pay rent or take care of
the property.
Repairs & Maintenance
How are repair requests handled and do you contact me for every repair?
A 24/7 maintenance line, staffed via VOIP call routing to
property managers (including night-shift monitoring for true emergencies).
Owners need to be contacted only for repairs above a set threshold.Repairs under $400 can
be handled without prior owner notification unless it’s a discretionary judgment call;
anything above that threshold, or anything the property manager determines poses a risk to
the property, community, or life/safety, gets owner notification and, where appropriate,
immediate action regardless of cost.
Can I use my own vendors?
Yes — owners can provide a list of preferred vendors, who are
then onboarded and required to follow the same policies and quality expectations as the
firm’s standard vendor network.
What if I have a large or emergency repair I can’t immediately afford?
