# Apartment Locator Kirby TX | Free Pre-Qualification

> Apartment locator in Kirby TX - published screening numbers and free pre-qualification. Houses, duplexes, and apartments east of San Antonio. 210-468-7667.

URL: https://sanantonioapartmentlocators.com/neighborhoods/kirby/

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Serving Kirby & surrounding areas

# Kirby TX Apartment Locator With Published Screening Numbers

San Antonio Apartment Locators serves Kirby, a small older city in east Bexar County between San Antonio proper and Converse - licensed Texas real estate agents under Spirit Real Estate Group (TREC #9003398) with same-day response and free to renters. Binz-Engleman Road, FM 78, and Ackerman Road are the main spines, with Loop 410 access connecting the corridor to Windcrest, Live Oak, and the broader Northeast Side. Kirby runs its own police department, sits adjacent to Salado Creek and the Salado Creek Greenway trail system, and holds a rental market that skews older and thinner than most Bexar submarkets. Conventional apartment inventory is limited and concentrated in Class C garden stock; single-family homes, duplexes, and some pet-friendly rentals account for a large share of what is actually available. Clients looking for modern amenity packages or luxury-tier product should understand upfront that the inventory does not support that search here. Clients who need lower rent, space, or a second-chance qualification path find real options through the Class C conventional layer and the non-conventional single-family market.

-   FM 78 corridor
-   Binz-Engleman Road area
-   Ackerman Road corridor
-   Salado Creek vicinity
-   East Bexar County edge

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Call 210-468-7667

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Same-day response during posted business hours.

-   Free to renters
    
    Community pays the referral fee
    
-   TREC #9003398
    
    Spirit Real Estate Group, LLC
    
-   NAAL member
    
    National Association of Apartment Locators
    
-   Same-Day Response
    
    During posted business hours
    

Sound familiar?

## The gap between the listing and the answer

A renter working from a listing site sees sticker price and no signal about whether their application will clear in Kirby. Both gaps close with the same work.

### The listing shows price, not policy

Zillow tells you a unit is available. It does not tell you the property wants 620 credit with a 7-year eviction lookback and will not take a guarantor. Two buildings on the same street, same rent, run different standards.

### Application fees are the real cost of guessing

They run $50-$75 each and are non-refundable. Apply at four properties that were never going to approve your file and you have spent $200-$300 to be told no four times.

### A $200 balance blocks like a $2,000 one

Property debt is the hardest single screening factor in San Antonio. A small balance is rarely ignorable; at a lot of properties it is a hard stop until it is cleared or a payment plan is documented.

### The advertised rent is not the monthly cost

Valet trash, pest, RUBS water and sewer, billing admin and tech or amenity packages add 7-15% over base rent, and CPS Energy swings hard in summer.

### Rent by unit type in Kirby

Ranges across the communities we work with in this submarket. The July 2026 metro averages for comparison: studio $888, 1BR $1,095, 2BR $1,394, 3BR $1,826.

| Unit type | Typical range | What drives the spread |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Studio | $700 - $900 | Very limited; the market is built around one- and two-bedroom demand. |
| 1 Bedroom | $825 - $1,075 | Below the July 2026 metro average of $1,095. Most supply is Class C garden or single-family rental. |
| 2 Bedroom | $975 - $1,300 | The volume unit type. Single-family and duplex supply broadens the available range at competitive price points. |
| 3 Bedroom | $1,150 - $1,600 | Single-family rentals carry most of this inventory and screen through individual owners or small operators. |

Ranges across the communities we work with, confirmed July 2026. Metro baseline: RentCafe / Yardi Matrix, July 2026. Add the mandatory fee stack (7-15% over base rent) for your real monthly cost.

### Commutes from Kirby

Off-peak drive-time estimates to the employment centers this submarket actually serves. Peak-hour times on Loop 410, Loop 1604, I-10, I-35 and US-281 run materially longer.

| Destination | Off-peak drive | Route |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Downtown San Antonio employment core | 20-30 min | FM 78 west or Binz-Engleman Rd west to Loop 410 or I-35 |
| JBSA-Fort Sam Houston | 15-20 min | FM 78 west to I-35 N or Binz-Engleman Rd northwest |
| Converse and Northeast corridor | 10-15 min | FM 78 east |

Off-peak estimates, confirmed July 2026. We check your specific address and shift on request.

Inventory age and class mix

## What the stock in Kirby is actually made of

Kirby inventory divides into two primary layers with a non-conventional overlay. The conventional apartment layer is thin: Class A is nearly absent, Class B is modest, and Class C garden stock along FM 78, Binz-Engleman Road, and Ackerman Road is where conventional apartment inventory actually exists. Screening at the Class C level in this market runs through individual on-site managers with real discretion rather than a software platform with a hard cutoff, and a second-chance file - broken lease, prior eviction, credit under 580 - has a meaningfully stronger path here than in the newer corridors along Loop 1604 or US-281. Master-metered utilities are common in the older stock, which changes the cost calculation: water or electricity may be billed back through a RUBS allocation rather than set up as a direct account with CPS Energy. Confirm the utility structure on any property before comparing costs across alternatives. Move-in concessions are thin in this corridor relative to higher-volume Northeast markets; confirm which properties pay referral fees before allocating time toward a tour. The larger story is the non-conventional layer: single-family homes and duplexes account for a significant share of the Kirby rental market. These screen directly through individual owners whose standards range from informal to a conventional credit-check-and-reference process. Some individual owners will not work with complicated files at all; our licensed agents qualify screening standards before presenting a file. Judson ISD and East Central ISD both serve portions of the city; the boundary does not follow obvious street lines, and the assignment matters for families. Kirby operates its own municipal police department, which is relevant context for residents used to SAPD coverage. VIA Metropolitan Transit runs limited bus routes along FM 78, but a car is required for most day-to-day movement in this corridor.

### Why building age matters to your application

About 18% of San Antonio's rental stock, roughly 47,352 units, was built between 1980 and 1989. That older Class B and C product is where an on-site manager still makes case-by-case decisions on a complicated file. Newer Class A generally runs a software rule with a hard floor. If your file carries a 

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rental history

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background

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 complication, the age profile of a submarket predicts your odds better than its reputation does.

Named communities

## How we handle specific communities in Kirby

San Antonio Apartment Locators tracks Kirby-area conventional communities in the San Antonio Screening and Cost Index with credit minimum, income multiple, eviction lookback and whether it is balance-dependent, property-debt policy, utility structure (master-metered vs. directly metered), and current concession availability with a confirmation date. Because conventional inventory here is thin and a meaningful share of the market is non-conventional, the verified list is shorter than in higher-volume corridors. Fee-paying communities are confirmed before we allocate time; the concession market here is thinner than in the broader Northeast, and we tell you that at intake rather than after a wasted tour. For single-family and duplex rentals, we verify the individual operator and screening standard before presenting your file.

We publish aggregates rather than a public property list for one reason: a named list with a credit minimum attached goes stale within weeks, and a stale screening number is worse than no number. Every community entry we hand you carries the date it was last confirmed and who confirmed it. That is the standard our 

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 hold across every submarket in Bexar County, and it stays free to you.

Get the current list for Kirby

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Service lines

## How we search Kirby

Same three screening hubs, applied to this submarket's specific stock and screening standards.

![San Antonio Apartment Locators - mid-tier wrap-style building that reviews credit files case-by-case](/images/hero/four-story-san-antonio-wrap-apartment-building-gra.webp)

### Credit Issues

The credit file itself. Score, thin file, derogatory marks, and income qualification, matched to properties that will review it.

-   ▪ Credit-band-to-class table: 650+ opens everything, down to Class C only under 550
-   ▪ Deposit ranges and when a third-party guarantee applies

Read the numbers

[Credit Issues →](/credit-issues/)

![San Antonio Apartment Locators - Class B apartment community with on-site leasing office for case-by-case review](/images/hero/san-antonio-garden-apartment-community-with-an-on-.webp)

### Rental History

What a prior landlord reported, broken leases, evictions, and property debt. The highest-intent of the three screening hubs.

-   ▪ How amount owed and age of the incident drive the outcome
-   ▪ Property-debt playbook, clear it or document a payment plan first

Read the numbers

[Rental History →](/rental-history/)

![A Class B San Antonio apartment community of the kind that reviews background records case-by-case](/images/hero/san-antonio-class-b-apartment-building-exterior-pa.webp)

### Background Issues

Criminal history, handled with the most care of the three hubs. Property policies stated factually, never framed as automatically disqualifying or acceptable.

-   ▪ How offense age and class change the outcome
-   ▪ Which property classes review older non-violent records case-by-case

Read the numbers

[Background Issues →](/background-issues/)

![An apartment community in the Northeast San Antonio corridor near JBSA-Randolph](/images/hero/san-antonio-apartment-community-near-a-military-ba.webp)

### Military & PCS Relocation

BAH-aligned, base-proximate searches for service members and PCS movers across Joint Base San Antonio, with SCRA guidance.

-   ▪ BAH-to-neighborhood alignment by rank (MHA TX285)
-   ▪ Proximity and commute realities for each JBSA base

Read the numbers

[Military & PCS Relocation →](/military-pcs-relocation/)

![Podium-style apartment building in San Antonio that relocating renters shortlist](/images/hero/san-antonio-podium-apartment-building-with-ground-.webp)

### Relocation & Remote Renters

For out-of-town renters who can't tour from 1,000 miles away, video walkthroughs, remote applications, and submarket orientation.

-   ▪ Video walkthroughs of shortlisted units
-   ▪ Remote application and lease signing

Read the numbers

[Relocation & Remote Renters →](/relocation-remote-renters/)

![San Antonio Apartment Locators - high-rise apartment tower near the Pearl District](/images/hero/san-antonio-high-rise-apartment-tower-near-the-pea.webp)

### Luxury & High-Rise

High-rise and luxury inventory in the Pearl, Downtown, Stone Oak, La Cantera, and The Rim, with full fee-stack transparency at the top end.

-   ▪ Which submarkets hold true high-rise and luxury stock
-   ▪ The compressed ~$180/month luxury-to-mid-tier gap

Read the numbers

[Luxury & High-Rise →](/luxury-high-rise/)

![Move-in day at a San Antonio apartment, boxes still stacked by the door](/images/hero/san-antonio-apartment-move-in-day-with-cardboard-b.webp)

### Moving Concierge

Utility, internet, and insurance setup framed around San Antonio's unique municipal utility stack, CPS Energy and SAWS.

-   ▪ CPS Energy setup (sole electric provider) and seasonality budgeting
-   ▪ SAWS water/sewer setup

Read the numbers

[Moving Concierge →](/moving-concierge/)

How it works

## Four steps to a verified Kirby list

1.  1
    
    ### Tell us the complication
    
    Three screening questions, credit, rental history, background, plus budget and move date. Nothing is shared with a property until you say so.
    
2.  2
    
    ### We pre-qualify your file
    
    We check your file against current standards for communities in Kirby, and call the leasing office directly where the answer is not already recorded.
    
3.  3
    
    ### You get a verified list with the full math
    
    Properties that will review your file, each with base rent, the mandatory fee stack, current concession, net effective rent and a confirmation date.
    
4.  4
    
    ### We advocate through application and lease
    
    We flag your file to the leasing office ahead of the application, follow up during review, and handle a remote application and lease signing if you are moving from out of town.
    

## Kirby on the map

## Searching in Kirby?

Tell us the complication and the budget. We will tell you which communities here will review your file.

210-468-7667

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Get Started

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How we are different

## Why Kirby renters choose us

### We publish the screening numbers

The rent range, commute times and class mix on this page are not behind a form. Check any other San Antonio locator site and see whether you can find the same thing for this submarket.

### We pre-qualify before you pay anything

Your file gets checked against a property's current standards before you submit a non-refundable application fee. If it will not clear, we say so and route you somewhere it will.

### We talk to leasing offices weekly

That is how we know which Kirby properties just dropped a credit minimum, which concessions never hit a listing site, and which on-site managers genuinely review a complicated file.

### Free to you, and we explain how

The community pays a referral fee out of the budget it would otherwise spend on listing-site advertising. No cash-back gimmick, no fee to you, no charge if you never lease.

In their words

## What renters searching Kirby say

We publish reviews only from this brand's own Google Business Profile, with written permission. The examples below are illustrative of the work and are labelled as such until verified reviews replace them.

> "They ran my file first and told me straight which properties would look at a broken lease with a balance still owed. No wasted application fees."

Renter (example)

Northeast San Antonio

> "I was PCSing to Fort Sam from out of state and leased sight-unseen off a video walkthrough. They matched the search to my BAH by rank."

Service Member (example)

Fort Sam Houston

> "They showed me the full monthly cost, valet trash, RUBS, the tech fee, not just the sticker rent. The 'cheaper' unit was actually more expensive."

Renter (example)

Medical Center

Local answers

## Kirby: your questions

Is the Kirby rental market mostly apartments or houses?

A large share of the rental market here is single-family homes and duplexes rather than conventional apartments. Applying a conventional apartment search - looking for a leasing office, online portal, and an amenity package - returns very thin results. Framing the search to include single-family and duplex rentals materially expands the options at competitive price points, and we say so on this page rather than sending clients looking for amenities that do not exist in this corridor.

What do rent prices look like for Kirby TX apartments and houses?

Across the communities we work with, one-bedrooms run roughly $825 to $1,075 and two-bedrooms run $975 to $1,300 (2026 rates). Both bands sit below the July 2026 metro average, putting this corridor on the affordable end of the Bexar County map. Single-family rentals add inventory across all unit sizes without a significant premium over garden-apartment rates in the same corridor.

Can I rent here with a broken lease, prior eviction, or low credit?

The Class C conventional layer along FM 78 and Binz-Engleman Road includes a meaningful share of properties where a manager reviews a file directly rather than running a hard software cutoff. Discretion at this tier is the primary qualification path in this market and it is generally strong. A zero balance on an older broken lease is the most workable situation; a balance still owed typically requires clearing or documenting a payment plan first. Individual owners in the single-family layer have inconsistent and sometimes informal screening standards - some will not work with complicated files at all - and we qualify them before putting your file in front of them.

Are utilities included in rent for Kirby apartments?

Master-metered utilities are common in the older conventional stock. Water or electricity - or both - may be billed back through a RUBS allocation rather than set up as a direct account. Before comparing prices across properties, confirm whether the quoted rent is all-in or requires a separate utility setup, and whether CPS Energy bills you directly or the property allocates back. CPS Energy is the sole electric provider at most addresses in this corridor.

What is the commute to Fort Sam Houston from this area?

From most addresses, Fort Sam Houston runs 15 to 20 minutes via FM 78 west to I-35 N or Binz-Engleman Road heading northwest. The proximity to Fort Sam and Brooke Army Medical Center is one of the practical reasons trades workers and healthcare support staff look at this corridor - it is closer and cheaper than the more widely searched Northeast Loop 1604 addresses, even if the conventional apartment inventory is thinner.

Which school districts serve this area?

Judson ISD and East Central ISD both serve portions of Kirby, and the boundary does not track city limits in a simple way. We confirm a specific property's district assignment on request and include it on your shortlist. We do not rank or characterize districts, but the assignment is relevant for families and worth verifying before signing a lease.

Do apartments here pay referral fees?

Referral fee coverage is thinner in this corridor than in the higher-volume Northeast or Northwest San Antonio markets. We confirm which properties pay before allocating time and tell you that at intake, not after you have already toured. For single-family and duplex operators, we verify each and include confirmed fee-paying operators on the fee sheet.

Is there a free apartment locator near Kirby TX?

San Antonio Apartment Locators covers Kirby TX and routes searches to Converse and the broader Northeast Side when inventory in the immediate corridor is thin. Licensed under Spirit Real Estate Group (TREC #9003398) and a NAAL member. Same-day response during posted hours, Monday to Friday 9 AM to 6 PM and Saturday 10 AM to 4 PM. The service is free to renters - the community pays a referral fee.

Are there pet-friendly apartments and houses for rent in Kirby TX?

Pet policies vary by property and owner. Some Class C conventional communities along FM 78 and Binz-Engleman Road accept cats and small dogs with a pet deposit or monthly pet rent, though breed and weight restrictions are common. In the single-family and duplex layer, individual owners set their own rules and some are more flexible on pets than conventional management companies. We confirm pet policy and any associated fees before adding a property to your shortlist.

What is the fastest way to find an apartment near Kirby TX?

Start with pre-qualification rather than browsing listings. We check your credit, rental history, and background against current screening standards for Kirby-area properties before you tour or pay a non-refundable application fee. That step eliminates the most common delay - applying at properties that were never going to approve your file. Same-day response during posted hours, Monday to Friday 9 AM to 6 PM and Saturday 10 AM to 4 PM.

Question not answered here?

Send it over with your file details and we will answer it against current property standards, not a general rule of thumb.

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## Also searching near Kirby?

### Converse

San Antonio Apartment Locators serves Converse, a fast-growing municipality in northeast Bexar County adjacent to Universal City and Live Oak, east of Loop 1604. FM 78, Toepperwein Road, Pat Booker Road, and Kitty Hawk Road are the main spines. Proximity to JBSA-Randolph Air Force Base drives a substantial share of demand, particularly for three- and four-bedroom units from military families, trades workers, and healthcare staff commuting to Brooke Army Medical Center. The corridor holds a mix of newer garden apartments and build-to-rent product at the Class A tier, modest 1990s-2000s stock in the B range, older garden communities along FM 78, and a large single-family rental layer that runs formal institutional screening with more conditional flexibility than clients expect.

See the numbers

[Converse →](/neighborhoods/converse/)

### Northeast Side / Windcrest

San Antonio Apartment Locators serves the Northeast Side and Windcrest, the large older submarket inside and around Loop 410 anchored by Perrin Beitel Road, Walzem Road, Nacogdoches Road, Thousand Oaks Drive, and IH-35 NE. Windcrest is an enclave city at the center with its own police department; the city's December lighting display draws neighborhood-wide traffic annually. The corridor holds the largest concentration of 1970s and 1980s Class C garden inventory on the northeast side, real qualification flexibility at that tier, and low locator competition relative to the search volume from tech and call-center employees at the Rackspace campus, military personnel from Fort Sam Houston and Randolph AFB, healthcare workers at Northeast Baptist Hospital, and families searching for three-bedroom units.

See the numbers

[Northeast Side / Windcrest →](/neighborhoods/northeast-side-windcrest/)

### Northeast Crossing / FM 78 & 1604

San Antonio Apartment Locators - licensed Texas real estate agents under Spirit Real Estate Group, LLC (TREC #9003398) - serves the Northeast Crossing corridor, the FM 78 & Loop 1604 growth zone east of Converse running toward the Guadalupe County line. Build-to-rent subdivisions and single-family rental homes in one-, two-, and three-bedroom layouts, operated by institutional landlords, are the dominant rental product, delivering into new subdivisions near Woodlake and the Kitty Hawk area faster than most locators have tracked. Conventional Class A garden apartments, including luxury-tier communities with resort-style amenities, are the secondary layer; Class B is limited and Class C is minimal. Military families from JBSA-Randolph and logistics workers form the core search volume, and the corridor prices below Schertz and Cibolo for comparable newer product. Most communities and BTR operators in this corridor accept pets, though breed and weight restrictions vary by property and HOA rules apply to single-family rentals. FM 78 congestion at peak runs worse than mileage suggests, which is the practical constraint renters here learn early. Judson ISD serves most Bexar County addresses; properties near the Guadalupe County line shift to East Central ISD, and a Cibolo Creek flood plain designation affects specific parcels worth verifying by address.

See the numbers

[Northeast Crossing / FM 78 & 1604 →](/neighborhoods/northeast-crossing-fm-78-1604/)

### All submarket guides

Rent by unit type, commutes and class mix across all 12 San Antonio submarkets we cover.

[All submarket guides →](/neighborhoods/)

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Free pre-qualification, no application fee gamble

## Apartment help in Kirby

Free pre-qualification, same-day response during posted hours. We publish the numbers so you can apply where you have a real chance.

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