PCS Season Is Here: Free BAH-Aligned Intake for JBSA Moves

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.

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	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 and how to rent a 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