The apartment community. Properties pay locators to fill their units, usually a share of the first month rent, and only once you have signed and moved in. Nothing of that is added to your rent.

There is none. We are paid by the community you choose, after you have signed and moved in. Nothing is added to your rent, and nothing is owed by you at any point.

No. There is nothing to sign with us and nothing to cancel.

No. Steering a client toward a property for our own benefit is a breach of a broker duty in Texas, not a matter of preference. If you rule an option out, tell us in writing and it stays out.

Because the live listing data is not ours to republish. So we do the looking and send you a list instead of handing you a directory you could have found yourself.

Yes, the same service in both languages, not a translated version of it.

Around 45 to 60 days, about two months, before you need to move. Communities rarely hold a unit much further out than that, because their own residents give about 60 days of notice. Earlier than that and we will still take your details, we just work them on a slower rhythm.

AptViva is the brand. The licensed entity behind it is Oikos Property Services LLC, a Texas real estate broker, and Viva Apartment Locator is its registered trade name.