- Photograph condition at notice
- Confirm vendor availability
- Schedule make-ready walkthrough
- List within the window
Each month you get one system you can install that week, so the property runs with less chaos, fewer expensive mistakes, and more of the rent kept.
What's included
- One new landlord system every month: a short video plus the checklist and templates to install it
- Houston-specific guidance pulled from how we operate 300 single-family rentals
- A private Google Drive folder for that month, delivered by email
- Built for owners who still self-manage and want the property to stop running them
Everything is designed to be:
- Usable this week, not “someday when I have time”
- Specific to Houston single-family rentals
- The same standards we use when we manage the asset ourselves
How It Works
Pay $39. You get access the same day.
Video, one-page checklist, and any templates live in Google Drive.
Do the work on your actual property, not in a notebook.
Next month attacks the next constraint: screening, pricing, maintenance, renewals, or turnover.
You are not buying a 40-hour course. You are buying one installed system per month.
Why This Is Different
Not a generic landlord course
Most landlord training is:
- Filmed for a national audience that does not operate under the Texas Property Code
- A long course people buy and never finish
- Tactics with no operating standard behind them
- Advice from people who do not currently run a Houston portfolio
This is different.
These are the systems we use on real Houston doors. Tenant screening. Pricing. Make-ready. Vendor control. Renewals. Turnover. Enforcement. Packaged one system at a time so a self-managing owner can actually install them.
Built from the portfolio, not from theory
- Emerson manages roughly 300 Houston single-family rentals.
- The founder built a personal Houston portfolio past 30 doors before opening the company.
- The coaching teaches the same standards we use when we stand behind a 30-day lease guarantee.
- If a process does not survive contact with real tenants, real vendors, and real Houston inventory, it does not make the month.
Who It's For
- Self-managing Houston landlords
- Accidental landlords who kept the house and are tired of guessing
- Owners with 1 to 15 doors who are not ready for full management
- Owners who want the property to run on systems, not memory
- Owners who will do the work the same week they watch the video
Who It's Not For
- Owners who want Emerson to run the property for them (book a consult instead)
- People looking for a free Facebook group or daily text support
- Landlords outside the Houston metro who want local vendor and court specifics
- Anyone expecting legal advice or a custom review of their deal
- Owners who will watch and never change how the property is run
What A Typical Month Looks Like
Each month follows the same shape on purpose. You should not have to figure out how to consume it.
- A 15 to 25 minute video. One topic. No filler.
- A one-page install checklist so you know what “done” looks like.
- The templates or scripts for that system, when a template is the constraint.
- A short email that tells you the one action to take this week.
Sample months
(examples, not a locked curriculum)
Topics rotate with the season and with what is actually breaking for Houston owners. Examples:
| Example month | The system you install |
|---|---|
| Screening | Income, rental history, and criminal standards that keep evictions rare without painting you into a Fair Housing problem. |
| Pricing | How to set list rent and drop it without lighting 30 days on fire. |
| Make-ready | What actually has to be done before photos and MLS, and what is just expensive taste. |
| Maintenance triage | What you handle, what the tenant handles, and how you stop $89 tickets from becoming $1,400 tickets. |
| Renewals | When to raise 2 to 5 percent, when to let a tenant go, and how to write the letter. |
| Turnover | The first 7 days after notice, because that window decides vacancy cost. |
$39 per month
Month to month. Cancel anytime. No onboarding fee.
Included
- Monthly system video
- Install checklist
- Templates for that month
- Google Drive access
- Email sequence
Not included
- Live 1:1 coaching calls
- Custom lease review
- Property management
- Vendor dispatch
- Legal representation
If one avoided mistake, one faster lease-up, or one cleaner renewal covers the year, the math already works.
Start This MonthFAQ
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Is this property management?
No. You still run the property. We send the system each month. If you want Emerson to run it, book a consultation. -
Is this legal advice?
No. It is education based on how we operate in Houston. Have a Texas attorney review anything you put in front of a tenant. -
I'm not in Houston. Can I still join?
You can, but the value drops. Screening norms, courts, vendors, and leasing tempo are Houston-specific. If you are not in this market, this is not the product. -
Do I get all prior months when I join?
No. Everyone starts at Month 1, no matter when they subscribe. Month 2 arrives the next month, then Month 3, in order. The sequence is the product. You do not jump in midstream or get a back catalog. -
Can I cancel?
Yes. Month to month. Use the link in your receipt or email us and we cancel before the next bill. -
Will you look at my property?
Not inside this product. That is a management conversation. Use the consult button. -
I already bought the Texas lease. Is this the same thing?
No. The lease is the document. This is the monthly operating system around screening, pricing, maintenance, renewals, and turnover. Buy the lease once. Use this if you want the rest of the playbook in monthly pieces.
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