# Marlene Quade | Lead Agent & Author | San Antonio Apartment Locators > Marlene Quade is the lead agent and author at San Antonio Apartment Locators, a licensed Texas agent under Spirit Real Estate Group, LLC (TREC #9003398), specializing in complicated-file placements across Bexar County. URL: https://sanantonioapartmentlocators.com/about/marlene-quade/ ![Marlene Quade, lead agent at San Antonio Apartment Locators](/images/avatars/marlene-quade.webp) # Marlene Quade Lead Agent & Author - Licensed Texas Real Estate Agent (Spirit Real Estate Group, LLC, TREC #9003398) - National Association of Apartment Locators (NAAL) Marlene Quade is the lead agent and author at San Antonio Apartment Locators, a free apartment-locating service in San Antonio, TX brokered by Spirit Real Estate Group, LLC (TREC #9003398). She specializes in placing renters who carry a screening complication, credit, rental history, or background, and publishes the actual credit-band, fee-stack, and net-effective-rent numbers most locators keep behind a form. ## What I actually do here I work the files most locators would rather pass on: credit under 620, a broken lease, a balance owed to a former property, a background record, or a thin file with no rental history at all. Those searches take longer and they fail more often than a clean-file search, which is exactly why they need somebody who has done a lot of them. The work itself is unglamorous. I call leasing offices and ask what their current credit minimum is, whether their eviction policy is balance-dependent, whether they take a third-party guarantee, and what the full fee stack comes to. I write the answer down with the date. Repeated across the communities we work with, that becomes the San Antonio Screening & Cost Index, and the aggregates from it are what get published on this site. ## Why the numbers are on the page Because a renter who has already been declined somewhere does not need encouragement. They need to know where to apply next, and they need it before they spend another non-refundable $50-$75 application fee. Publishing the credit-band table and the fee stack is the fastest way to give them that, even the ones who never contact us. It also keeps me honest. A number with a date attached is checkable. A claim like "we know the market" is not. ## What I will not write I will not tell you a neighborhood is safe or unsafe. Safety framing correlates with racial composition and is the clearest steering exposure a locator has, so we compare submarkets on rent, commute and inventory age instead. I will not tell you a criminal record is automatically disqualifying or automatically fine. I will tell you what a property's stated policy is. And I will not promise approval, because nobody honest can. ![The San Antonio office where the Screening and Cost Index is maintained](/images/misc/small-san-antonio-real-estate-office-with-a-desk-n.webp) ## Posts by Marlene Quade - The San Antonio Winter Concession Window Is Coming [/blog/san-antonio-winter-concession-window-2026/ →](/blog/san-antonio-winter-concession-window-2026/) In a renter's market with ~10% vacancy, December-February carries San Antonio's deepest concessions. Here's how a winter lease can beat June by $2,000-$3,000. - How We Placed a Renter With a Broken Lease and a Zero Balance [/blog/broken-lease-zero-balance-placement-san-antonio/ →](/blog/broken-lease-zero-balance-placement-san-antonio/) An anonymized, dated example of routing a broken-lease renter with no balance owed to a case-by-case Class B community, and what made the file work. - PCS Season Is Here: Free BAH-Aligned Intake for JBSA Moves [/blog/jbsa-pcs-season-free-intake-summer-2026/ →](/blog/jbsa-pcs-season-free-intake-summer-2026/) Inbound to JBSA-Lackland, Fort Sam, Randolph, or Camp Bullis this summer? Our free, BAH-aligned remote intake is open through the peak PCS window. ## Selected guides ### Aligning Your BAH to a San Antonio Neighborhood How the San Antonio MHA (TX285) BAH rate maps to real submarket rents by rank: which areas fit within BAH by unit type, and why BAH must cover the full monthly stack. [Aligning Your BAH to a San Antonio Neighborhood →](/guide/aligning-bah-to-san-antonio-neighborhood/) ### Apartments That Accept Bad Credit in San Antonio Which San Antonio properties work with low scores, at what threshold, and how age and severity of derogatory marks change the outcome. Deposit and guarantee expectations included. [Apartments That Accept Bad Credit in San Antonio →](/guide/apartments-that-accept-bad-credit-san-antonio/) ### Apartments With Collections or Judgments in San Antonio How San Antonio properties weigh non-rental collections and judgments (medical, card, utility) versus rental debt, the amount and age thresholds, and which classes stay open. [Apartments With Collections or Judgments in San Antonio →](/guide/apartments-with-collections-or-judgments-san-antonio/) ### Best Time of Year to Lease in San Antonio December-February carries the deepest San Antonio concessions; May-August is peak PCS and school demand. A winter lease can beat June by $2,000-$3,000 on the same unit. [Best Time of Year to Lease in San Antonio →](/guide/best-time-of-year-to-lease-san-antonio/) ### Broken Lease Apartment Guide for San Antonio How the balance owed and age of a broken lease drive the decision in San Antonio, the difference between a broken lease with vs without a balance, and which classes stay open. [Broken Lease Apartment Guide for San Antonio →](/guide/broken-lease-apartment-guide-san-antonio/) ### Current San Antonio Move-In Specials How San Antonio move-in specials really work, why concessions are year-one only, and how to find unadvertised ones. Every listing carries a confirmation date. [Current San Antonio Move-In Specials →](/guide/current-san-antonio-move-in-specials/) See all guides [/guide/ →](/guide/) ![](/images/hero/san-antonio-wrap-apartment-building-courtyard-with.webp) Free pre-qualification, no application fee gamble ## Send me your file Free pre-qualification, and a straight answer about where it will and will not clear. Get Started, Free [/get-started/ →](/get-started/) Call 210-468-7667 [tel:+12104687667 →](tel:+12104687667) - Free to you. The community pays the referral fee - Licensed under Spirit Real Estate Group, LLC - No approval promises, no undated numbers