The form Owner’s Authorization Concerning Unescorted Access to Property (TXR 2223) was created for members of Texas REALTORS® to comply with TREC rules that allow a license holder to permit unescorted access to a prospective tenant in certain circumstances.
The form helps satisfy the TREC requirement for written consent from the owner. TREC rules also call for documentation for whether the owner or broker will be responsible for damage that occurs due to unescorted access. This form specifies that the owner will assume that responsibility.
Note that in keeping with the rule, this form is only intended for use in residential or commercial rental properties–not for properties being listed for sale. Also be aware that an MLS may have rules regarding whether brokers can share keybox access codes with prospective tenants.
Use of this form also helps REALTORS® comply with Standards of Practice 1-16 and 3-9 of the Code of Ethics.
Brought to you by some lazy agents who don’t wish to show their rental listings.
I don’t consider myself lazy and neither would any of my clients. This helps with auto-showing services. At any point in time we have 10-15 available rentals and 3 times that amount of people wanting to view. (at a minimum 30 min per showing, including drive time if you’re lucky enough to schedule sequentially and optimize a route, that’s 7.5 hours of showing per day) Self-showings help out immensely. If anything I would say agents that focus on property management are far from lazy. Self-showings not only provide greater exposure to the renting public in a shorter time, many services… Read more »
There are “lazy” people in every walk of life. This form will do as advertised, meet the TREC requirement for unassisted showings and it will benefit the landlord who otherwise may not be able to secure the services of a REALTOR because their property is too distanced from the brokers office to warrant taking the business. Leasing agents work hard for the smallest of commissions found in our industry and this will be an aid to them and to the property owner. Thank you TAR!
actually, in the country we are asking for something like this for large properties that do not have homes on them yet. As a buyer we rode horseback on 8-10 properties before buying. Do you as an agent think you can grab your horse and come along. One agent tried to walk a property with us and actually had a rattle snake strike and get stuck in his dress slacks, after that, he was all for us riding the properties.
just goes to show you never know what the situation is, don’t assume the other person is being lazy.
This will only work if the rental property has a combo lockbox on it, but not a Supra.
Just another way of taking “a human being” out of the equation. What’s next, Robots? You can’t really know the client if your not looking at the properties together. Reading one’s body language is a special skill that can give you a lot of knowledge about that person and that’s not possible if you not there.