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    To read up on the full rental code, go here: http://texaspropertycode.org/chapter-92-texas-property-code.html

 

    In the State of Texas certain requirements must be met on rental properties; we are required by law to Rekey, Install Keyless Deadbolts, Door Viewer and Sliding Glass Bars on all exterior doors leading into the dwelling. Below is brief description as published by the state of Texas of the Texas Rental Property Code. If you choose not to bring your rental properties up to code it must be documented on our invoices that the house is not up to code to exempt our company from any and all legal liability arising from not being up to code.

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                                                     TEXAS RESIDENTIAL RENTAL CODE CHEAT SHEET

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• Door viewers are required on  any exterior doors  to the interior living area of the home."Exterior door" means a door providing access from a dwelling interior to the exterior. The term includes a door between a living area and a garage but does not include a sliding glass door or a screen door.

      

• Texas rental code requires two types of locks on any exterior doors that lead to the outside of the property.

       

• All doors allowing access to the interior of the home(including upstairs balcony doors) must be equipped following(Door handle doesn't count):

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1.   One single cylinder deadbolt and one keyless deadbolt

2.   Two single cylinder deadbolt 

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• Window locks must be installed on all windows,which can include:

1.   Pin locks

2.   Clamps

3.   Replacement window latches

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• Charley Bar :This device must be equipped with an sliding glass door that lead to the outside of the property.When the Charley Bar is properly installed,you should not be able to move the sliding glass door.

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• Smoke detectors

1.   There must be one in each bedroom and in the hallway outside the bedroom

2.   Always replace battery-operated detectors with battery-operated ones and hardwired detectors with hardwired ones.

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• Carbon Monoxide Detector:Beginning April 1, 2018, residential and commercial structures with both sleeping areas (bedrooms) and gas or fuel-burning appliances are required to install and maintain carbon monoxide (CO) alarms. (Tex. Hum. Res. Code Ann. § 42.060 – Carbon Monoxide Detectors.)

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      What is Carbon Monoxide (CO)?
      Carbon monoxide is a colorless, odorless, extremely poisonous and explosive gas that causes 1,500 accidental deaths and more than 10,000 injuries each year. CO is slightly lighter than air and mixes throughout the atmosphere. It is a by-product of incomplete combustion, produced when fuels such as natural gas, propane, heating oil, kerosene, coal, charcoal, gasoline or wood are burned with insufficient air.​