The Texas Rental Relief Fund is an organization that helps renters and landlords in Texas who have been affected by the inability to pay rent or collect their rents.
The fund was created due to a housing crisis, as well as people struggling with paying for their monthly rental payments.
The Texas Rent Relief Program provides rental and utility assistance to qualifying applicants to prevent housing instability, potential eviction, utility disconnections, and financial hardships for tenants and landlords.
In the following paragraphs, we will discuss some important things you need to know to help make your life easier.
Tenant’s Rights When Leases and Rent Payments Become Unaffordable
When you are leasing a rental property. You are normally under that lease agreement that you have signed with the Landlord (Owner) of the property.
One of the key things to do is make sure that you have read your copy of the lease. When you have read your lease.
You want to make sure that you check to see if the Landlord has closely followed the contractual duties of the agreement that the Landlord is supposed to do.
What this means is your a rechecking to make sure that the landlord has followed the lease in regards to the time of the essence of repairs and fixing the property.
If for some reason you find that the landlord has breached their contractual duties to comply with the lease.
You can talk with a Real Estate Attorney about how you can exit out the lease or lessen the amount due.
You must have documentation and dates where you have called the Landlord to repair things that are supposed to be repaired by the Landlord and the Landlord or Management never repaired the requested items or the problem went unchanged.
You must make sure you have pictures and documentation of when you called them to make timely repairs and the Landlord failed to meet their contractual duties.
In the agreement it might allow you a out clause if the landlord failed to make repairs to the property and breached their contractual duties.
Keep in mind that if you are behind on the lease then you are in breach of your contractual duties to pay the Landlord. This is when you have defaulted on your lease.
The Landlord then goes through the eviction process. This is where the Texas Rental Relief Fund can help.
Why You Should Consider Applying for the Fund?
The Texas Rental Fund is a great way to get your rental property back on track. Or if you are renting a property it can help you pay some of the money that you owe the LandLord.
If you have an issue with paying your rent or you have tenants that are not paying their rent or having a hard time collecting money from them then you may be eligible for this program.
Don’t allow frustration to keep you down. The Texas Relief Rental program can help you at least get some of the lost income back from your rental property.
Who Can Apply To Receive Assistance From The Texas Rent Relief Program?
Renter households must have an income no more than 80% of area median income (AMI) and one or more members of the household must attest in writing that they have either: qualified for unemployment benefits, OR due to a pandemic experienced a reduction in their earnings.
They will need evidence with this claim as well such as pay stubs, tax returns, award letters/documents showing reductions by employers, etc…
If you’ve been hit by the coronavirus, Evidence of legal status to live in the country is not required.
The funding for this program is part of the Coronavirus stimulus bill passed by Congress; because it is emergency assistance, documentation of household legal status is not required.
How Much will your receive from the Texas Rental Assistance?
The Texas Rent Relief program helps renters that are struggling to keep up with their rent payments.
Families in need can now breathe a little easier knowing they will have relief from the stress of constantly trying to make ends meet.
Based on TexasRentRelief.com rents can not exceed $4600.00 per month. If you have a property that rents over this amount then you are not eligible for the program.
Do you have to be behind On Rent To Receive Help From The Texas Rental Program?
You do not have to be behind on rent to receive help from the Texas Rental Program.
If you are having issues paying your utility bills the Texas Rental Program may be able to assist you with getting caught up on your utility bills.
The Texas Rental Program wants to make applying for their program quick and easy, so they have put together a checklist that’ll help you understand what steps are required.
Below is a snapshot of the Program Check List.
How to Apply for the Texas Rental Relief Fund
To apply for assistance simply go to TexasRentRelief.com and click apply now.
This will take you to the next screen which will show you, Landlord or Tenant. You will choose which one.
If you are a Landlord you will click on Landlord which will take you to a screen to create an account.
If you are a Tenant you will do the same thing. You will click on the Apply Now and then it will take you to a screen that says continue to the application.
Once you click continue to apply you will then Register and put in your information.
If for some reason you have questions there number is found on their websites at https://texasrentrelief.com/
Conclusion:
The Texas Rent Relief program is a helpful service for both Tenants and Landlords. If you need assistance recovering lost revenue on your property, or if you’re behind on rent, the TRRF can help by providing some relief to get back onto track with paying off overdue balances.
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