# Second Chance Apartments Hurst TX | Free, Veteran-Run > Looking for second chance apartments in Hurst TX? Free locating for evictions, broken leases, and bad credit in the HEB corridor. Call (817) 555-0142. URL: https://fortworthsecondchanceapartments.com/service-areas/hurst/ ![Tarrant County garden-style apartment complex exterior with carports and parking lot under overcast daylight](/images/hero/tarrant-county-garden-style-apartment-complex-exte.webp) Tarrant County · Population # Free Second Chance Apartment Locating in Hurst, TX Last updated: August 1, 2026 Fort Worth Second Chance Team - licensed Texas agent, TREC #679806, veteran-operated - locates apartments in Hurst, TX for renters carrying evictions, broken leases, or bad credit. The city anchors the central portion of the HEB mid-cities corridor in northeast Tarrant County, served by Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD, with North East Mall and the Bell Textron campus providing the area's largest retail and aerospace employment base. The rental inventory centers on older 1980s-1990s garden-style properties along the Pipeline Road and Central Drive corridors where locally managed buildings retain on-site manager discretion, alongside mid-tier product where lease guarantee programs through TheGuarantors and OneApp Guarantee provide the documented path in. Free to renters. Response in under 60 minutes during posted hours Free to renters TREC #679806 English & Spanish Start Your Search [/start-your-search/ →](/start-your-search/) (817) 555-0142 [tel:+18175550142 →](tel:+18175550142) Licensed TREC #679806 Brokerage Spirit Real Estate Group, TREC #562021-B Cost to you $0, communities pay the referral fee Response Under 60 minutes during posted hours Why the last application failed ## Denied in Hurst? Here Is What Blocked Your Approval Fort Worth landlords filed just under 46,000 eviction notices in 2023, and Texas court records are public the day they are filed. Most renters with a record are not failing because approval is impossible. They are failing because nobody told them the criteria before they paid the fee. Every denial costs $50 to $100 A run of them burns $400 to $600 in non-refundable fees with nothing to show for it. The fee is charged whether the answer was ever going to be yes. "Second chance" ads still deny you Plenty of listings marketed that way still decline a five-year-old filing or an open balance. The ad is marketing. The criteria are what decide. A dismissed eviction still shows Texas filings are public from the day they are filed and never expire. A dismissal changes the disposition, not the existence of the record. What is different about this market Retail and aerospace employment anchor of the HEB corridor, with a concentration of older locally managed Pipeline Road and Central Hurst stock that makes the discretion path viable alongside the program path. We start the search from that, not from a generic county-wide list. ![Rental application denial letter and a phone left on a kitchen counter in harsh midday light](/images/misc/rental-application-denial-letter-and-a-phone-left-.webp) What it costs Three to five denials is $400 to $600 in fees you do not get back. At a glance ## What decides a rental search here Population & county Tarrant County School districts - Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD Major employers - Bell Textron (Hurst campus) - North East Mall area retail and service employers - Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD school system Commute & transit SH-183 (Airport Freeway) Loop 820 (NE Loop 820) SH-121 HEB Transit (connects to Hurst/Bell TRE Station) Hurst/Bell TRE Station (Trinity Railway Express) ![Row of Tarrant County apartment buildings along a residential street with parked cars and live oaks](/images/misc/row-of-tarrant-county-apartment-buildings-along-a-.webp) Rent context As of 2026, rents track at or slightly below the $1,438 Tarrant County average. Older Pipeline Road and Central Drive garden-style one-bedrooms are available from roughly $1,000 to $1,300, and mid-tier corridor product runs closer to the county average. Fort Worth apartments average $1438 across all unit types, with studios around $1,075, 1BRs $1,259, 2BRs $1,590, and 3BRs $2,011. ## Eviction and Bad Credit Approval Routes in the HEB Corridor Same second chance apartment locating in Fort Worth [/ →](/) across the county, applied to whatever is on your record. Start with the one that matches your situation. ![Fort Worth Second Chance Team reviewing a rental application at a leasing office desk](/images/misc/fort-worth-apartment-leasing-office-desk-with-a-pr.webp) ### Apartments That Accept Evictions Free apartment locating for Fort Worth renters with an eviction filing. Each community's lookback window and balance policy verified before you apply. Free to renters [Apartments That Accept Evictions →](/apartments-that-accept-evictions/) ![Fort Worth Second Chance Team lease paperwork and pen on a leasing office table beside a laptop](/images/misc/signed-apartment-lease-paperwork-and-a-pen-on-a-le.webp) ### Apartments That Accept a Guarantor Matching you to communities that accept a third-party lease guarantee or deposit alternative. Free to renters [Apartments That Accept a Guarantor →](/apartments-that-accept-a-guarantor/) ![Cardboard moving boxes stacked in an empty Fort Worth apartment with vinyl plank flooring after a lease break](/images/misc/cardboard-moving-boxes-stacked-in-an-empty-apartme.webp) ### Broken Lease Apartments Placement for renters carrying a broken lease, with or without an open balance. Free to renters [Broken Lease Apartments →](/broken-lease-apartments/) ![Credit report and phone showing rental screening score on a Fort Worth kitchen counter](/images/misc/printed-credit-report-pages-and-a-phone-showing-a-.webp) ### Bad Credit Apartments Free apartment locating for renters in Fort Worth with credit below the 580-620 threshold most properties set. Free to renters [Bad Credit Apartments →](/bad-credit-apartments/) ![Fort Worth Class A apartment building exterior with balconies and ground-floor leasing office](/images/misc/newer-four-story-class-a-apartment-building-exteri.webp) ### Luxury Apartments With Bad Credit Access to new construction and Class A inventory through criteria matching and third-party programs. Free to renters [Luxury Apartments With Bad Credit →](/luxury-apartments-with-bad-credit/) ![Vacant-ready Fort Worth apartment living room with vinyl plank flooring ready for immediate move-in](/images/misc/vacant-ready-apartment-living-room-with-clean-viny.webp) ### Immediate Move-In Apartments Expedited search on immediate move-in inventory in Fort Worth for renters facing a hard deadline. Free to renters [Immediate Move-In Apartments →](/immediate-move-in-apartments/) Most relevant here: Apartments That Accept Evictions [/apartments-that-accept-evictions/ →](/apartments-that-accept-evictions/) ## How Your Apartment Search Works, Start to Keys Four steps from your first message to keys. Most of the work happens before you ever pay an application fee. Step 1 ### Tell us the record Move-in date, budget, the part of town you need to be near, and the filing, balance, credit range, or background behind the last denial. Step 2 ### We match criteria Your file goes against criteria we confirmed and dated: lookback windows, balance policy, income multiple, credit floor, and which third-party programs each community accepts. Step 3 ### You apply once Document set prepared, letter of explanation where it helps, and applications only where the criteria already permit your record. Step 4 ### Lease review and keys We read the lease with you, confirm total cash at signing, and follow up on a denial if one comes back. What you are agreeing to ## Not Sure Which Route Fits? Ask Before You Apply Send us the situation you would rather not put in an application: the filing, the balance, the credit range, the background. It is the part that decides where we start. Start Your Search [/start-your-search/ →](/start-your-search/) Text us your situation [sms:8175550142 →](sms:8175550142) - No fee, no deposit, and no charge for the research. The community pays a referral fee at lease signing, and your rent is not raised to cover it. - No obligation. If nothing here fits your file this month, we say so instead of sending you to tour anyway. - Total cash to move in is stated before you tour, not after an approval lands. - If a neighboring city reaches the same jobs for less rent, we tell you that too. Why this market is different ## Inside the Hurst Rental Market ### Pick your path by barrier type, not by budget The two approval routes here suit different file problems, and choosing the wrong one costs application fees. The older, locally managed garden-style stock along the **Pipeline Road** corridor, through **Central Hurst**, and into the **Brown Trail** corridor is the better route when your barrier needs a human to read it: a dismissed eviction, a lease broken during a job loss or a documented circumstance, a settled balance. These properties often screen without **RealPage** or **Yardi** automation, so context reaches the person making the decision. That is where a letter of explanation attached to an application actually gets read. The mid-tier corporate product along the **SH-183 (Airport Freeway)** frontage and the **Loop 820** corridor is the better route when your barrier is a number. A credit score below threshold or income under 3x is solved by a documented tool - a lease guarantee through **TheGuarantors** or **OneApp Guarantee**, a deposit alternative through **Jetty** or **LeaseLock**, or a co-applicant - and corporate operators in this corridor accept those tools consistently. Fort Worth Second Chance Team sorts you into the right lane at intake. ![Galley kitchen in a Tarrant County apartment with laminate countertops, white appliances, and vinyl plank flooring](/images/misc/galley-kitchen-in-a-tarrant-county-apartment-with-.webp) ### Older Pipeline Road stock and mid-tier corridor product, inside the same commute Much of the rental inventory dates to the 1980s and 1990s, concentrated along **Pipeline Road** and the **Central Drive** corridor, managed locally or by smaller regional operators. That is where individual judgment still lives, and where a letter of explanation attached to an application actually gets read. Rents here track at or slightly below the $1,438 Tarrant County average (2026 data), with older garden-style one-bedrooms in **Central Hurst** and **South Hurst** available from around $1,000 to $1,300. The mid-tier product along the **SH-183 (Airport Freeway)** frontage and near the **North East Mall** area runs corporate-set criteria through **RealPage** or **Yardi** - pulling **Experian RentBureau** and **CoreLogic SafeRent** files - and a lease guarantee through **TheGuarantors** or **OneApp Guarantee** is the documented path that moves a file. Deposit alternatives through **Jetty** or **LeaseLock** reduce cash at signing when a conditional approval doubles the deposit. **North East Mall** anchors the retail employment base and draws significant traffic from across the HEB corridor, while the **Bell Textron campus** provides the aerospace manufacturing jobs that have defined the city's economy for decades. **Chisholm Park** and the broader park network give the residential corridors outdoor access. **Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD** serves the entire city, so school boundaries follow the district rather than an internal neighborhood line. If a specific campus attendance zone is the constraint, say so at intake and the search stays inside the right zone. Having both approval routes inside one city is the local advantage, and it is why the search starts with your record rather than your budget. ### Why Renters With a Record Work With Us Here - Fort Worth Second Chance Team sorts you into the discretion path or the program path before you spend a fee - We prepare the letter of explanation that locally managed Pipeline Road and Central Drive properties will actually read - We confirm criteria per property and log the date, from older Pipeline Road and Brown Trail stock to SH-183 corridor mid-tier product - We know which HEB corridor operators accept which guarantor programs through TheGuarantors or OneApp Guarantee, confirmed and dated - Free to you, because the community pays a referral fee at lease signing About property criteria here Community criteria are confirmed with the property or management company, logged with a date, and re-verified quarterly. Criteria are not a guarantee of approval. We do not publish a static list of community names here, because criteria shift with occupancy and a stale list costs you application fees. When you send us your situation we pull the current, dated criteria for the communities that fit it: eviction lookback, rental debt policy, income multiple, background policy, and which third-party programs each one accepts. ## Before you apply: Apartments That Accept Evictions Guide ### Dismissed, Settled, or Judgment: How Each Eviction Disposition Screens Three dispositions, three different screening outcomes. Find out which one you carry and what documenting it changes on an application. [Dismissed, Settled, or Judgment: How Each Eviction Disposition Screens →](/guide/dismissed-settled-or-judgment-eviction-dispositions/) Guide ### How to Write an Eviction Letter of Explanation Property Managers Accept Dates, disposition, what changed since, and current stability, what the letter must contain, what to attach, and what to leave out. [How to Write an Eviction Letter of Explanation Property Managers Accept →](/guide/eviction-letter-of-explanation/) Guide ### Eviction Lookback Windows: How Far Back Fort Worth Properties Check Common lookback windows, who sets them, and why 'second chance' ads still deny five-year filings with an open balance. [Eviction Lookback Windows: How Far Back Fort Worth Properties Check →](/guide/eviction-lookback-windows-fort-worth/) Guide ### Eviction on Your Record: Guarantor Program vs. Softer-Criteria Property Two paths with an eviction filing: a property whose criteria already permit it, or one that approves with a guarantee. Cost, inventory, and speed compared. [Eviction on Your Record: Guarantor Program vs. Softer-Criteria Property →](/guide/guarantor-vs-softer-criteria-property-with-an-eviction/) Coverage ## Where we search in Hurst We work the whole city, not a shortlist. These are the areas renters ask for most often, and the reference points people use when they tell us where they need to be. ### Neighborhoods and districts Central Hurst South Hurst Pipeline Road corridor Central Drive corridor North East Mall area Brown Trail corridor Airport Freeway (SH-183) corridor Loop 820 corridor Searching a different part of the county? Our service area pages [/service-areas/ →](/service-areas/) cover the rest of Tarrant County. ### Landmarks renters navigate by - North East Mall - Bell Textron campus - Chisholm Park - L.D. Bell High School - Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital HEB (Bedford border) Getting around SH-183 (Airport Freeway) runs east-west through the HEB corridor and puts DFW International Airport terminals within a short drive of most rental stock. Loop 820 provides north-south access and connects toward North Richland Hills and the full Tarrant County highway network. SH-121 connects toward Euless and Grapevine to the west and south. There is no TEXRail stop in the city, but HEB Transit runs bus connections to the Hurst/Bell TRE Station on the Trinity Railway Express line, reaching downtown Fort Worth and Dallas directly. For most of the inventory, a car expands your options across the rental corridors, though the Hurst/Bell TRE connection makes rail-adjacent units worth pricing into the decision. ## Common Questions About Renting With a Record What does manager discretion actually mean at the older properties along Pipeline Road? It means the person reviewing your application has authority to weigh context rather than only a pass or fail output. At many of the older locally managed properties along Pipeline Road and Central Drive, a documented explanation for a broken lease or a dismissed filing can change the outcome. It is not a guarantee, since the property still decides, but it is a real difference from an automated screen. Which route should I try first with an eviction filing? Usually the discretion path first, if the filing has a disposition worth explaining: dismissed, settled, or agreed. Automated criteria generally read the filing, not the outcome. If the filing is recent enough that no lookback window clears it, the program path with a lease guarantee through TheGuarantors or OneApp Guarantee is often the faster route. We check both before recommending. Is mid-tier corridor product realistic with bad credit? Often, yes. Corporate criteria are consistent, and the operators running mid-tier product along SH-183 and Loop 820 commonly accept third-party lease guarantees through TheGuarantors or OneApp Guarantee, which is how they approve applicants who miss a credit threshold. The premium is typically around one month's rent as a one-time fee (2026 rates), plus the program's own qualification step. Does an eviction filing here appear on the Tarrant County court record? Yes. The city is entirely within Tarrant County, so filings go through the Tarrant County Justice of the Peace courts and appear on the Tarrant County Odyssey Public Access platform from the day they are filed. A dismissed filing still shows up, which is why we document the disposition and sort properties by lookback window before you spend an application fee. Is there commuter rail or bus service in the HEB area? There is no TEXRail stop in the city, but HEB Transit provides bus connections to the Hurst/Bell TRE Station on the Trinity Railway Express line, which reaches downtown Fort Worth and Dallas directly. If a car is not guaranteed, tell us at intake and we will weight the search toward properties accessible to those connections. What does it cost to move in with an eviction or bad credit? Total cash at signing depends on the property and the approval path. For older locally managed stock along Pipeline Road, expect a standard deposit plus application and admin fees. For mid-tier corridor product with a lease guarantee, add a one-time premium of roughly one month's rent through TheGuarantors or OneApp Guarantee (2026 rates). A deposit alternative through Jetty or LeaseLock can reduce the upfront cash when a conditional approval doubles the deposit. Fort Worth Second Chance Team states the full number on every recommendation before you tour. Where can I find a second chance apartment near me in the HEB mid-cities? Fort Worth Second Chance Team covers all of the city, from older locally managed properties along Pipeline Road and Central Drive to mid-tier product near North East Mall and the SH-183 corridor. Tell us your move-in date and your record at intake, and we match you to communities whose criteria already permit your file. Response in under 60 minutes during posted hours. Start Your Search [/start-your-search/ →](/start-your-search/) Free to you. Response in under 60 minutes during posted hours ## Nearby cities we cover Widening the search by one city often changes what your file can reach. A lower rent means a lower income multiple and a smaller deposit at signing, and the criteria are different one city over. We serve all of Fort Worth and Tarrant County. These five city pages exist because each has a documented, non-interchangeable approval story, not because our service area is limited to them. - Bedford HEB mid-cities corridor where older locally managed stock and mid-tier corporate product produce two distinct approval routes inside the same commute window. [/service-areas/bedford/ →](/service-areas/bedford/) - North Richland Hills Mixed stock producing two genuinely different approval routes, chosen by barrier type. [/service-areas/north-richland-hills/ →](/service-areas/north-richland-hills/) - Euless Irregular airport and logistics shift income, documented against income multiples. [/service-areas/euless/ →](/service-areas/euless/) - All service areas [/service-areas/ →](/service-areas/) ![Garden-style Fort Worth apartment building seen from the parking lot on an overcast afternoon](/images/hero/three-story-garden-style-fort-worth-apartment-buil.webp) ## Ready for a Second Chance in Hurst? Tell us your record and your move-in date. We come back with communities whose criteria already permit it, and what each one costs at signing. Start Your Search [/start-your-search/ →](/start-your-search/) Call (817) 555-0142 [tel:+18175550142 →](tel:+18175550142) Free to renters. Communities pay the referral fee at lease signing. We do not guarantee approval; every screening decision belongs to the community.