Resident Resource
Resident Handbook
The Rice Real Estate & Property Management Resident Handbook provides practical guidance about rent payments, maintenance requests, home care, lease changes, renewals, and moving out.
Inside the Handbook
Practical Guidance for Your Tenancy
The handbook brings Rice Real Estate & Property Management’s main Resident instructions into one document. Use the online pages below whenever you need a current form, deadline, contact, or step-by-step process.
Rent and Your Account
Payment timing, accepted payment methods, account access, returned payments, and important communication reminders.
Repairs and Emergencies
How to report routine repairs, respond to urgent conditions, provide vendor access, and document maintenance concerns.
Home Care Responsibilities
Guidance about filters, plumbing, landscaping, irrigation, pests, pools, HOA rules, safety, and preventive care.
Lease Changes and Moving Out
Information about pets, household changes, renter’s insurance, renewals, move-out notice, cleaning, and returning possession.
Open the Current Resident Handbook
The July 2026 handbook is provided as a PDF so you can read it online, save a copy, or print the pages you need. This HTML page will remain the permanent public location for future handbook editions.
Resident Quick Links
Start With the Page That Matches Your Task
These pages contain the current forms, instructions, deadlines, and contact steps for common Resident needs.
Your Signed Lease Controls
The Resident Handbook and this page provide general guidance. Your signed lease, addenda, property-specific instructions, HOA rules, written notices, and written directions from Rice Real Estate & Property Management control if they differ from this guidance.