# PCS Season Is Here: Free BAH-Aligned Intake for JBSA Moves | San Antonio Apartment Locators > 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. URL: https://sanantonioapartmentlocators.com/blog/jbsa-pcs-season-free-intake-summer-2026/ Last-Modified: 2026-05-28 Author: Marlene Quade Events & Promotions # PCS Season Is Here: Free BAH-Aligned Intake for JBSA Moves 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. By Marlene Quade · Published May 28, 2026 · 6 min read ![An apartment community near a Joint Base San Antonio installation during PCS season](/images/featured/san-antonio-apartment-community-near-a-military-ba.webp) PCS season runs through August, and our free BAH-aligned intake is open for it. If you have orders into Joint Base San Antonio, Lackland, Fort Sam Houston, Randolph or Camp Bullis, the whole search can run remotely before you arrive, at no cost to you. **Event window:** now through **August 31, 2026**. Same-day response during posted hours, Monday to Friday 9 AM to 6 PM and Saturday 10 AM to 4 PM. After-hours intake is picked up the next business morning. ## What “BAH-aligned” means in practice Not that we sort listings by price. That the search is built against your actual allowance under the San Antonio Military Housing Area, MHA TX285, for your rank and dependent status, and against the **full monthly cost**, not the advertised rent. That distinction is the whole point. Across San Antonio, valet trash, pest control, RUBS water and sewer allocation, billing admin and tech or amenity packages add **7-15% over base rent**. CPS Energy is billed separately and peaks hard in a South Texas summer. A unit advertised comfortably inside your BAH can sit outside it once the mandatory stack is added. ![A BAH budget worked against the full monthly stack rather than base rent alone](/images/content/bah-budget-worksheet-showing-base-rent-plus-valet-.webp) Check your exact rate on the DoD BAH calculator. Rates refresh each January and we would rather you took the figure from the source than from us. ## Which base means which submarket JBSA is four installations spread across the county, and the right answer for one is frequently the wrong answer for another. ![Base-to-submarket commute matrix for the four JBSA installations](/images/content/jbsa-base-to-submarket-commute-matrix-showing-lack.webp) | Base | Closest submarkets | Off-peak drive | Typical 2BR band | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Randolph | Northeast | 5-15 min | $1,200-$1,700 | | Randolph | Schertz-Cibolo | 8-18 min | $1,250-$1,750 | | Lackland | Lackland & Southwest | 5-15 min | $1,000-$1,400 | | Fort Sam / BAMC | Central | 10-15 min | $1,700-$2,800 | | Camp Bullis | Stone Oak | 15-25 min | $1,550-$2,300 | Rent bands are ranges across the communities we work with, confirmed July 2026. Drive times are off-peak estimates. Gate choice and report time move them, so tell us your actual reporting hours. ## What the remote process looks like 1. **Send orders, rank and report date.** That is enough to start. Add anything on your file worth flagging. A thin credit record from being young in service is extremely common and completely workable. 2. **We map BAH against real submarket rents,** all-in rather than sticker. 3. **Shortlist by gate and commute,** with availability confirmed by phone rather than pulled from a syndication feed. 4. **Video walkthrough of the specific unit**, not the model, not the marketing gallery. We tell you what the video misses too. 5. **Remote application and lease signing,** with the military clause language requested before you sign. Full detail on the sequence is on military and PCS relocation [/military-pcs-relocation/ →](/military-pcs-relocation/) and how to rent a San Antonio apartment remotely [/guide/how-to-rent-san-antonio-apartment-remotely/ →](/guide/how-to-rent-san-antonio-apartment-remotely/) . ## A word on timing, since you probably have none May through August is the worst pricing window of the year in this market. Peak PCS demand stacks on the school cycle, availability tightens and concessions thin out. December through February is the opposite, often a $2,000 to $3,000 difference over a lease term on the same unit. If your orders leave you no flexibility, that is the normal case and we work with it. But there is one move available even inside a summer report date: **ask for a 7-month or 17-to-18-month term.** Either one pushes your renewal decision into the low-demand winter window instead of landing it back in June every year. > **On the military clause** > > Wording varies between leases, and Texas Property Code §92.017 addresses early termination rights for service members in specific circumstances. We request the clause language before you apply and flag anything unusual. For a review of your specific lease, JBSA Legal Assistance is the right resource. We give the general overview, not legal advice. ## What this costs Nothing. The community pays a referral fee out of its marketing budget when a renter we introduce signs a lease. You are never invoiced, and there is no charge if your orders change and the search resets, which happens, and which we plan for. That is how the whole service works, our San Antonio apartment locators [/ →](/) are free to renters on every search, not just PCS ones. We do not offer a cash-back rebate. Rebates come out of the same referral fee, which pulls the recommendation toward whichever property pays most rather than the one nearest your gate at a rent your BAH actually covers. **Inbound to JBSA this summer?**, Start your free BAH-aligned intake [/get-started/ →](/get-started/) - military - pcs - jbsa - bah ![Marlene Quade](/images/avatars/marlene-quade.webp) Written by Marlene Quade [/about/marlene-quade/ →](/about/marlene-quade/) Lead Agent & Author Lead agent and author at San Antonio Apartment Locators, specializing in second-chance and complicated-file placements across Bexar County. Licensed Texas Real Estate Agent (Spirit Real Estate Group, LLC, TREC #9003398) ## More from the blog Seasonal ### The San Antonio Winter Concession Window Is Coming 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. [The San Antonio Winter Concession Window Is Coming →](/blog/san-antonio-winter-concession-window-2026/) News & Updates ### The San Antonio Renter's Report: July 2026 Refresh Is Live Our aggregated Screening & Cost Index refresh is out, median credit minimums by class, average fee stacks, and concession depth, every figure dated with a sample count. [The San Antonio Renter's Report: July 2026 Refresh Is Live →](/blog/san-antonio-renters-report-july-2026-refresh/) Case Studies ### How We Placed a Renter With a Broken Lease and a Zero Balance 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. [How We Placed a Renter With a Broken Lease and a Zero Balance →](/blog/broken-lease-zero-balance-placement-san-antonio/) ![](/images/hero/san-antonio-wrap-apartment-building-courtyard-with.webp) Free pre-qualification, no application fee gamble ## Want this applied to your own file? Free pre-qualification against current San Antonio property standards. No cost to you at any stage. 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