Every price, deal rank and distance on this site comes from a source we can name and a check we actually ran. This page is the full list: where each number comes from, how often it refreshes, and the rules that keep a wrong number off the page.
We get prices and move-in specials three ways: a rental data service we subscribe to, the communities' websites, and our team's own checks every day. A special can come from any of the three. 67 communities in New Braunfels are tracked this way. When an offer's own deadline passes, it comes off the site the next day. If a community only publishes pricing behind a contact form, we show the last range we had, with the date we checked it, or no number at all. Some numbers from that data service can be estimates rather than posted rents, so we show when each price was last updated.
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 each month, divided by the square feet you get. A firm offer is spread over the lease it names, or over twelve months when it names none. An offer that says "up to", or only covers some homes, doesn't count: you might not get it, so that community ranks at its full rent. 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.
Our data holds no New Braunfels bus schedule yet, so no page here lists transit stops. Grocery distances run to real store locations, H-E-B and the other full-line grocers, measured from each community's pin on our map. A street photo of a building shows up only where one was taken close by, so you never land on an empty "not available here" view.
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 New Braunfels ISD’s published attendance boundaries, with the district’s closures and reassignments already applied; other districts show at the district level until we can verify their own boundary layers. Zones change and variances exist, so always confirm with the district before signing a lease.
NewBraunfelsApartments.com is run by Ross Quade, a licensed Texas REALTOR® and apartment locator (TREC Lic. #679806), sponsored by Spirit Real Estate Group (TREC Broker Lic. #562021). The service is free to renters. Communities pay locators a referral fee, disclosed here so you know how the lights stay on. That fee never changes a number on this site: rents, ratings, availability and class are what the community publishes, whoever pays. It never changes a sort you pick either, so lowest rent means lowest rent. Where we feature or recommend a community rather than simply list it, that is our pick, and we are paid a fee by many of the communities we work with. Those are labeled so you can tell the difference.
Found a number that looks wrong? Tell us and we will check it against the source and correct it.