How We Get Our Data

Rents and move-in specials reach us through a paid apartment feed, the leasing pages communities post, and our own legwork, every day. A special on this site can come from any one of them. 26 communities in Kyle are tracked this way. Some Kyle communities only give a price after you fill out a form. For those you'll see the last range we had on file and the date we had it, or nothing. The paid feed sometimes fills in a rent with its own estimate, so we date our prices with the day we last updated them.

A "1 month free" banner on an expensive unit can be a worse deal than a cheaper unit with no special. So we rank deals by what you would actually pay: free weeks divided over the months of the lease they come with (the longest lease the offer names if it does not say which one a home size gets, and a full year if it names none), per square foot of home. Communities where rent is set by income limits rather than the market are kept out of market deal rankings on purpose. Comparing them against market rate communities would mislead in both directions.

Every time our price checks run, the numbers are written into a permanent ledger: dated, append only, never edited after the fact. Trend lines and "price dropped" flags come only from that measured record. We do not backfill history we didn’t record ourselves, and a month we missed stays missing rather than being estimated.

We match every community against the City of Austin’s affordable housing inventory. A community where half or more of the units are income restricted is treated as income restricted and stays out of market rate search results until you ask for it. Mixed communities are labeled so you know before you call. Current income limits shown on the site come from the published HUD limits for the Kyle metro area, with their effective date.

Bus and rail distances come from CapMetro’s published GTFS schedule data (via data.texas.gov): we compute the nearest stop and its routes for every community we can pin to its street address. Grocery distances are measured to real store locations (HEB, Central Market, Whole Foods and the other full service chains). Street View imagery links only appear where Google actually has a camera pass near the building, so there are no dead "not available here" links.

Commute times on our employer pages are computed with live-traffic routing for a Tuesday 8:30 AM departure: the honest number, not the 2 AM one. Each page says exactly which departure the number describes. We recompute these periodically; they are estimates of a typical rush hour, not a promise about any given morning.

Every community gets its school district from the Texas Education Agency’s own current boundary file. Campus level zoning (elementary, middle, high) comes from Kyle ISD’s published attendance boundaries, with the district’s closures and reassignments already applied; other districts show at the district level until we have their own boundary layers. Zones change and variances exist, so always confirm with the district before signing a lease.