Sell Your Keller, TX House

Keller Town Hall is closed on Fridays

Keller, home to 46,643 people in the Census Bureau's 2024 estimate (Census city and town totals), runs its customer service out of Keller Town Hall at 1100 Bear Creek Pkwy. One detail trips up sellers and buyers alike: Town Hall keeps hours of 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday and is closed on Fridays. If your closing lands on a Friday, sort out the utilities earlier in the week.

The city's Utility Billing division handles water, wastewater, residential garbage and recycling, and drainage, and its listed duties include customer connects and disconnects. Call 817-743-4060 to end your service. Trash and recycling are collected by CWD (Community Waste Disposal), 817-795-9300.

How a Keller code notice plays out

Keller publishes how a code complaint moves, step by step, in its code compliance FAQ. If you own a house there you are not living in, this is the timeline to expect:

1. After a report, the property should be inspected within three business days.
2. If it is out of compliance, a Notice of Violation is mailed to the property and, where it applies, to the owner of record according to Tarrant Appraisal District. Keep your mailing address current with TAD so that letter reaches you.
3. You get 10 days from the date of the letter to comply. Extensions are decided case by case.
4. After the 10 days, the property is re-inspected. If the violation remains, a Second Notice or Final Notice is mailed.
5. Once every opportunity has been used, a citation may be issued. More citations can follow, with at least 30 days between them under Municipal Court rules.

The city notes that the process and time frames for high grass and weeds or an unwholesome swimming pool may differ.

Rules that catch an empty Keller house

The same FAQ spells out the rules that most often catch an empty or slow-to-sell house in Keller:

• Grass has to be cut to an even height under 12 inches, and the owner or tenant also keeps the parkway between the sidewalk and the curb.
• A pool you no longer use must be drained or, with a demolition permit, filled in. If it still holds water, it has to be maintained so it does not become unwholesome or breed mosquitoes.
• Trailers and RVs, along with tarp-covered vehicles, may not be parked in front of the home, including on the driveway.
• Trash carts and brush may not go to the curb before 7 p.m. the night before pickup.
• Items in public view are limited to personal-use things such as firewood, a grill or children's toys.

Reports go through the city's online portal or to codecompliance@cityofkeller.com. Our vacant house checklist covers the rest of the upkeep.

Tarrant County offices for a Keller sale

A Keller house is on the Tarrant County side of every county task:

• Tarrant Appraisal District sets the value, handles homestead exemptions and is where a protest is filed. Texas Tax Code section 41.44 makes the protest due by May 15 or 30 days after the appraisal notice is delivered, whichever is later.
• The Tarrant County Tax Assessor-Collector lists the City of Keller and Keller ISD among the entities it collects for. Taxes become delinquent on February 1, according to the county tax FAQ. Check your own statement for every unit that taxes your parcel.
• The Tarrant County Clerk records the deed to your buyer in Room B20 at 100 W. Weatherford St. in Fort Worth.

The foreclosure clock on a Keller home

If the mortgage on a Keller home has fallen behind, Texas Property Code section 51.002 lays out the minimum clock for a residence:

Step	What the statute requires
Notice of default	The servicer must give the owner at least 20 days to cure before a sale notice can be given.
Notice of sale	Given at least 21 days before the sale.
Sale	A public auction between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. on the first Tuesday of a month.

In Tarrant County, the clerk's foreclosure page says substitute trustee sales happen at the base of the courthouse steps on the west side of 100 West Weatherford Street, and the trustee for the lender conducts them. Notices can be viewed on the county's official records search; the clerk does not publish a list. Read more in our guide to selling before a foreclosure in Texas.

Selling your Keller house to us

You can sell as-is without making repairs, we can close in 7–14 days, and we pay all closing costs. Se habla español.

See how the process works, then ask for an offer on your Keller home.

Local offices for this area

• Tarrant Appraisal District
• Tarrant County Tax Assessor-Collector: property tax
• Tarrant County Clerk: real estate records
• City of Keller: Utility Billing
• City of Keller: Code Compliance FAQ

ZIP codes we buy in: 76248, 76262