Every one of these runs on the same nightly readings as the rest of the site: 103 communities, 82 of them carrying a checked price, banked November 7, 2026. Nothing here asks for an email before it answers you.
What a San Marcos apartment actually costs once the concession, the fees and the drive are in the number.
Turns weeks free into a real monthly number, then adds the fees a quoted rent leaves out. The same arithmetic behind every deal ranking on this site.
Rent side by side at every bedroom size, with the drive beside it. Both markets tracked the same way, every day.
What your income carries here, and then the part other calculators skip: which communities land inside it, by name, and the gap when none of them do.
Divide the rent by room size, by income, or half of each, seeded with the real median for that size. The parts always add back to the total.
First month plus deposit is about half of it. The whole list, itemised, with the rent line seeded from tonight’s median at the size you pick.
Three sentences for the leasing office, with the cheaper San Marcos communities named at tonight’s real asking rents. An argument you can stand behind.
What every community we price has actually charged, month by month, from our own banked readings rather than a survey.
4 more tools are designed for this group and not built yet. They will appear here as they ship, not before.
Narrow the list without opening fifteen tabs.
Up to three side by side: rent, beds, specials, drive time and the day each price was checked.
All 103 communities on one screen, filtered by price, beds, pets, schools and what is running a special this week.
Answer a few questions and get a shortlist back from a person, not an algorithm. Free to renters.
The things a national site has no way to tell you about this town.
Every rent move we have recorded, in public, one line per community per bedroom count. Nothing is quietly rewritten.
Which communities publish a dog run, a pet wash or a fenced yard, and what the fees actually come to. Assistance animals covered separately under Fair Housing.
San Marcos sits almost exactly between downtown Austin and downtown San Antonio. Every community with the measured rush-hour drive to both, rent beside the minutes.
The sources behind every price on this site, how often each one is pulled, and what we do when one goes quiet.
A tool goes up when the data behind it is ours and current. Several of the designed ones need a source we do not hold yet, and those will not be built out of guesses. If one of them is what you actually need, say so and it moves up the list.
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