Frequently Asked Questions

Rent Reporting is an optional credit reporting and financial tool provided by Homebody Insurance Agency, LLC and its affiliate, Simplified Business Group, LLS, also known as Rent Dynamics. For a monthly fee of $8.95, Rent Reporting reports your rent and utility payments (if utilities are not included in your rent) to one or more consumer reporting agencies, such as Equifax, TransUnion, and Experian. Each rent and utility payment made on time helps build your credit over time, payment by payment, month by month, year by year… even if it’s your guarantor making the payment OR you receive financial aid! Imagine what four years of paying rent on time can do for your credit score!

Your credit score is a number that tells lenders if you usually pay your bills on time, are able to keep your credit card balances low, and are able to manage different types of credit. So when you make on-time payments, your credit score may improve or remain the same if it’s already high. However, as someone who rents an apartment, you’re not building your credit history by paying rent on time. Why not? Because rent isn’t considered debt, and paying off debt is typically what builds credit. Rent Reporting is a tool you can use to your advantage because each on-time payment is reported to the very credit bureaus that report these scores to car dealers, mortgage lenders, a future landlord, etc.

The Rent Reporting Addendum is included in your Lease Agreement. However, you may cancel at any time after signing by using the Homebody app, sending a written notice of termination to Homebody at 4205 Chapel Ridge Road, Lehi, Utah 84043, ATTN: Rent Reporting Service Charge, or by emailing rentreporting@homebody.com. To avoid being charged for the next month, cancellations must be received at least ten (10) days before the end of the current month.

Note: If your lease is joint and several (i.e., shared with roommates), each resident must cancel individually to opt out of the program.

More information can be found online at https://www.homebody.com/products/rent-reporting. In addition to learning about Rent Reporting here, we encourage you to click on the various tools on the Homebody website to learn more about money management. What’s the highest credit score possible? How can I improve my credit score? What credit score do I have to have to buy a car? Or even a house? It’s never too soon to begin thinking about what your financial future holds!

Call us to set up at tour at 512-601-6178 or start a chat on our website.

Any student will be accommodated at College Town San Marcos. If you already have other students that you know you would like to live with, you will be placed with them, within the same apartment. If you are looking by yourself you will be matched with other tenants using our Roommate Matching System. The roommate matching questionnaire is part of your initial application that you fill out prior to signing a lease to live at College Town San Marcos. We use your answers to this questionnaire and compare them with other residents’ answers and match everyone accordingly.

All apartments come fully furnished. Living areas are furnished with a couch, coffee table, entertainment stand, end table, and a 55" SMART TV. Kitchens in our apartments are furnished with barstools at a bar. Bedrooms include a queen-sized bed, pillow-top mattress, large study desk, desk chair, night stand, and dresser.

All kitchens are supplied with stainless steel full-sized refrigerator, a range/stove, microwave, and garbage disposal. Each unit is equipped with washer and dryers regardless of the floorplan type.

High speed internet and trash are included. There is a $5 Utility billing admin fee, per person, for Electric billing. Water and Sewer are NOT included. Contact the leasing office for details on our ALL UTILITIES INCLUDED option.

Your rental payment includes: access to the entire facility for the complete duration of your lease term, access to all amenity spaces, a fully furnished apartment, high speed internet with individual password protected WiFi, trash, a 55" SMART TV in every living room, FREE in-unit washer and dryer, 24/7 emergency maintenance, and secure mail and package storage at our Leasing Office.

No, we do not charge a security deposit!

Rent is to be paid by the 1st of every month of your contract. Arrangements can be made to pay a full semester in advance or a full year in advance if that is desired by the tenant. Alternatively you can always drop off or mail a check to our management office in the first floor lobby.

Rent payments can be made by check, money order, wire transfer, credit or debit cards (No cash will be accepted) in the leasing office or online through your Resident Portal account. Most debit cards have a daily limit for charges, so check with your bank to be sure you have the ability to make large payments before attempting payment. Convenience fees will apply to any online payment and vary depending on your payment method. College Town Communities splits these fees with you and pays half, so the fee you pay is actually half of the entire fee. Checks are the cheapest way to pay, and they can be dropped off or mailed to our management office on the first floor lobby!

Yes, our property includes a secure, fully-gated, multi-floor parking garage with plenty of parking spaces available for all residents. Parking spaces are $35 per regular spot. We also offer reserved spaces, that are closer to the building entry points, for $55 per parking space.

Guest parking spaces are available on a first-come-first-serve bases in a separate location in our parking garage. These spaces are monitored using the Parking Boss app. Any guest vehicles parked in the designated guest spaces without utilizing the app to register their vehicle, will be towed at the owners expense.

We are an off-campus student housing facility located in San Marcos, Texas. Because of our close proximity to Texas State University, many of our residents are college students.

Any resident is allowed to have a guest visit or spend the night at any time without the need to register or sign them in. However, a guest is not allowed to stay for more than 3 days at a time. Roommate consideration must be taken into account with all visitors. Guests must be accompanied by the resident whom they are visiting at all times when inside the apartment.

Please contact the leasing office for complete information.

ALL residents will have their own bedroom, bathroom and closet.

We have individual leases which means we each unit per bedroom. You will be solely responsible for the bedroom while the common area and kitchen is a shared space between you and your roommates.

College Town College Town San Marcos is adjacent to campus and overlooks Bobcat Track & Field Stadium. Main campus is about a 4 minute drive. There is a bus stop directly across the street from our property.

College Town San Marcos is a pet-friendly facility. Anyone requesting to have a pet must submit their request to the Leasing Office, and complete all necessary paperwork, including signing the Pet Addendum and Roommate Authorization Form. Please contact our leasing office for more information. We require a one time, non-refundable, $300 pet fee that is due with your first installment, and $30/month per rent.

Following guidelines pursuant to the Federal Fair Housing Act and your state’s Human Relation Commission, College Town Communities is committed to making reasonable accommodations to allow a Service Animal or Emotional Support Animal (ESA) to live with a resident in the Leased Premises. Applicants and current residents requesting such accommodations must contact the Leasing Office prior to bringing the Service Animal or ESA on property, complete all necessary paperwork required by your state’s Human Relations Commission, and be granted written permission by Landlord in order to do so. More information regarding your rights and responsibilities to allow a Service Animal or Emotional Support Animal to live with you in the Leased Premises can be found here.

There is a FREE washer and dryer included in every unit.

Leases for the 2026-27 school year will begin on August 14, 2026.

We offer both school-year leases and full-year leases!

2026-27 school-year leases run through May 21, 2027, and full-year leases run through July 30, 2027.

Background checks are performed on every student who wants to live at College Town San Marcos. A credit check is performed separately on the parental guarantor for each tenant. Please contact our leasing office for details.

No, there is no fee to apply to live at College Town College Town San Marcos. There is, however, a $199 Administrative/Facilities Fee once you have decided to complete a lease to live at our properties.

The Administrative/Facilities Fee is a nonrefundable annual fee due at lease signing for all applicants and renewals. The fee covers the online application process, renewal lease generation, resident and guarantor screening, on-site security, annual lock programming, 24-7 access to the online Resident Portal, security camera monitoring and maintenance, after-hour call center services, and maintenance of all amenity spaces.

Assuming you are of the legal age, you may consume alcohol in your apartment. No alcohol is permitted in the outdoor areas and we ask you to respect all community guidelines.

No. The apartments are already painted. You may decorate your apartments with posters, tapestries, Christmas lights, etc. Please use thumb tacks or nails when hanging things on the walls. Do not use Tape, Glue, Gummy poster hangers, 3M double sided sticky pads, etc. Do not use wall decals, as they will delaminate the face of the drywall. Any unnecessary damage to the apartment walls could lead to you having to pay for repairs.

College Town San Marcos provides a queen-sized bed frame and pillow-top mattress. You will need to bring a mattress pad, sheets, blankets, comforters, pillows and bed spread. Every unit will include mini blinds on each window and you may add window treatments if you desire, but the blinds must stay in place.

We work closely with the Texas State University but we are a privately owned company.

Yes. You may use financial aid proceeds or any other 3rd party payment process to pay for your Rent at any of our facilities. Typically financial aid proceeds are dispersed directly to the student who in turn can then use those proceeds to pay for housing. If a rental payment is due and the tenant has not received their source of aid yet, proper documentation of this delay in aid must be presented to management in order to avoid any late fees to your account. Please contact our leasing office for more information.

Make checks payable to College Town Communities.