She Drove Her Car From Florida to Austin For One Weekend and We Found Her a Home By Monday

Last month a client called me straight from the road. She was driving from Florida to Austin with her car loaded up with stuff and she wanted to know if she could find a place to live in a single weekend.

Most agents would tell her to slow down. I didn't.

She works in the medical field and had asked for a transfer to Austin. Her start date was two weeks out and she wanted her essentials moved in before her first day at work. She's a risk taker, so she packed the car and drove, hoping to sign a lease before she turned back around.

She'd found our team when she was researching Austin on Reddit and she liked our answers to questions posed there. When she arrived in Austin, she called us.

We talked on the phone first. I walked her through our process, told her what paperwork she'd need to sign, and looked over the listings she'd already found. She'd been searching pretty far outside central Austin. As someone new to town who was used to long drives, the distance didn't worry her yet.

Her dogs added a wrinkle. Both are older and about as sweet as dogs get, but their size meant a lot of the property management companies in Austin wouldn't approve them.

I showed up to the first house with my laptop, ready to pull better matches the moment we needed them. We didn't have to wait long. She walked the property, felt how far it was from everything, and knew right away it wasn't the one. We sat down at that kitchen table and started searching together.

A few calls later, I had showings lined up. She loved two of them enough to apply to both the same day. One had a property management company behind it. The other had an owner who managed the home himself and an agent who answered every question fast. She went with the owner-managed house.

We couldn't get her approved that weekend. Her new employer and her old landlord both needed to verify her history, and that takes a few business days no matter how motivated everyone is. By Monday, she had her approval.

She told me she never would have found that house without me. I believe her. She had good instincts and had done real homework before she arrived, but Austin moves fast, and the right house for her wasn't sitting at the top of her search results.

If you're planning a move to Austin and want someone who knows which neighborhoods fit your life, which property managers will actually work with your pets, and how to move quickly when the right house shows up, reach out. We'd love to help you find it, even if you only have a weekend.