·Eviction Wizard Team
Checklist: moving your next eviction onto Eviction Wizard
To move to Eviction Wizard, join the waitlist, assemble the first case file from the lease, build that file free, and pay the $149 Document Organizer fee only when you authorize filing. Texas launch is county by county — your county may not be live — and Florida, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada are next, not live. You remain the filer; the software organizes the packet and does not give legal advice.
Eviction Wizard helps landlords organize eviction documents, submit through the court's e-filing system, request a process server, and track every deadline — in one dashboard. Eviction Wizard AI Partners, LLC is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice.
Key takeaways
- The move is the next case, not a bulk import from property-management (PM) software. Bring the lease, ledger, notices, and delivery proof into one file.
- Join the waitlist first. Founding members lock a $149 Document Organizer fee per case for life. Joining does not charge $149.
- Build the first case free. Confirm tenant name, property address, rent amount, and lease dates from the lease before any form repeats them.
- You review, confirm, and authorize filing. You remain the filer. Court fees and third-party fees stay on separate invoices.
- Texas launch is county by county. A precinct / Justice of the Peace (JP) helper is based on the information you provided, not a guarantee of venue.
- Bulk filing, team seats, and portfolio guardrails are coming. They are not live. Do not wait for them if you have one Texas case to organize now.
Contents
- What a move actually transfers
- Join the waitlist before the next notice
- How to assemble the first case file from the lease
- What to keep from the old stack
- County-by-county Texas launch under the 2026 rules
- How Eviction Wizard handles this
- Pay the organizer fee only when you authorize filing
- Frequently asked questions
- The honest bottom line
What a move actually transfers
A move to Eviction Wizard is not a data migration from a rent roll. It is a decision that the next eviction will live on a dedicated case file from notice through possession, instead of across a PDF kit, a PM status flag, a clerk portal, and a calendar reminder you hope you set.
The spine does not change when the vendor does: notice, deliver, notice period, file, citation, hearing, judgment, appeal, writ, then possession. Eviction software for landlords is the category definition for that spine. Form-fillers, PM software, and DIY guides each cover a slice. The move is about putting those slices back on one file before you authorize a sworn petition.
What you transfer is the evidence and the facts the forms will repeat. The signed lease. Addenda that change rent or occupants. The payment ledger. Every notice you already sent. Every receipt, photo, or server affidavit that shows how that notice left your hands. Those objects become the packet. They do not become legal advice.
What you do not transfer is the PM suite's job. Ledgers, owner statements, work orders, and unit status stay where they already work. Praise that software for operations. Do not ask it to be a JP precinct check, a sworn-petition packet, or a writ reminder. Bulk filing, team seats, and portfolio guardrails on the eviction side are coming; they are not a reason to invent an import button that does not exist.
What you also do not transfer is the lawyer's job. Typical attorney fees are commonly reported at $1,500–$3,000, and some public comparisons cite $1,500–$5,000. Typical eviction-service invoices are often cited around $475. A $149 organizer fee is documents and workflow, not representation. If the next case is contested, an appeal, or an entity-representation question, hire independent counsel and use the dashboard as the file they review.
The honest move is one case. Pick the property that is actually in default. Keep the old PDFs as an archive. Build the new file around tenant name, property address, rent amount, and lease dates. If those four are wrong, every later page is wrong.
Join the waitlist before the next notice
As of 2026 the live site is a waitlist. That is an operations fact, not a promo. Texas justice courts do not share one filing desk. Precinct maps, e-filing habits, and fee schedules change at the county — and often at the precinct. Launch is Texas first, county by county, because a wrong-precinct filing is dismissed, not transferred. Florida, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada are next and are not live. This article will not invent a go-live week.
Join the waitlist with an email before you need the clerk's stamp. You are asking to be notified when your county opens, and to hold founding-member pricing if you become a founding member. Founding members lock $149 per case for life. The lock is a Document Organizer rate. It is not a prepaid filing, a vanishing seat count, or a bundled eviction that includes the clerk, the constable, or a lawyer.
Joining does not charge $149. Build your case free — pay only when you file. If you never authorize submission to the court's e-filing system, the organizer fee should not post.
Use the waitlist window as prep time. Pull the lease. Reconcile the ledger. Write down how you delivered any notice you already sent. Confirm the county and the unit number. Those tasks do not require a live e-file button.
If you must file this week and the county is not live, you still have the clerk, eFileTexas where the county uses it, counsel, or an eviction-service company. The waitlist does not replace those paths. It is the path onto the dashboard when the county is ready. For the feature list that should exist after you leave the list, read eviction platform features. This checklist is the order: waitlist, first case, free build, authorize, then pay.
How to assemble the first case file from the lease
The first useful test of a move is whether you can turn a lease into a reviewed packet without retyping the same four facts on every page. Those facts are tenant name, property address, rent amount, and lease dates. Extraction may place them into the selected forms. Extraction is a clerk. You are the reviewer.
Work the first case in this order, even if your county is not live.
- Collect the source documents. Signed lease, rent or occupant addenda, payment ledger, and every prior notice.
- Confirm tenant name. Use the lease name for every adult tenant you intend to name. A nickname in PM software is not a petition caption.
- Confirm property address. Street, unit, city, and county. In Texas, the address is how a precinct / JP helper later proposes a court — based on the information you provided, not a guarantee.
- Confirm rent amount. Monthly rent and the unpaid period. If the ledger and the lease disagree, fix that before a form repeats it.
- Confirm lease dates. Start date, end date, and whether the tenancy continued month-to-month.
- Name the ground, then stop if it is unclear. If the only issue might be unpaid rent and a first delinquency during the lease term, Texas Property Code section 24.005 requires a notice to pay rent or vacate before a standard notice to vacate. Check the lease. Consult a Texas attorney.
- Record how you delivered any notice you already sent. Texas SB 38 lists in-person delivery to an occupant 16 or older, mail, conspicuous posting, and electronic delivery only if agreed in writing. This article does not call any method sufficient.
- Upload the lease when the county is live. Extraction should place tenant name, property address, rent amount, and lease dates into the selected forms. The upload is a draft, not a filing and not a charge. Edit spelling, missed occupants, and wrong-unit rent before you continue.
- Review, confirm, and authorize only when you are ready to be the filer. Pay the $149 Document Organizer fee when you authorize submission to the court's e-filing system. Approve court and third-party charges on their own lines.
You can stop after step 8 and never owe the organizer fee. The abandoned file still sits as a record. Two failure modes show up constantly: paying a form site before you know you will file, and treating extraction as authority.
What to keep from the old stack
You are not required to delete the old tools. You are required to stop treating them as the case file.
Keep the PM ledger. Courts and counsel will ask for payment history. Keep the signed lease in the original PDF, even after upload. Keep every notice you already mailed or posted, with the proof you actually created. The dashboard should hold copies. It should not be the only place a signed lease exists.
Leave behind the habit of starting a new PDF for every stage. A form-filler checkout that sells a notice and walks away is a form sale. A DIY guide can teach the 2026 sequence; it cannot populate tenant name from the lease or submit through the court's e-filing system.
Use the table as a keep-or-replace filter, not a score of any named vendor.
| Object in the old stack | Keep it as | What the new case file should replace |
|---|---|---|
| Signed lease and addenda | Source archive | Retyped captions; extraction still needs your review |
| Payment ledger in PM software | Exhibit and ops record | A status flag that says "in eviction" and nothing else |
| Prior notices and delivery proof | Evidence folder | Memory, email threads, and a second copy in a desk drawer |
| Form-filler PDFs | Archive of what you already served | Starting a new download for the petition, citation notes, and writ |
| Spreadsheet dates | Temporary bridge | Deadline objects on one timeline through writ |
| Attorney email thread | Counsel record | Using counsel as a filing clerk for a routine packet |
The move is complete when one dashboard holds the notice, the delivery record, the petition you will swear to, the court you confirmed, and the later clocks. If a cheaper product stops at "packet downloaded," you have moved a form, not a case.
County-by-county Texas launch under the 2026 rules
Most landlords on this waitlist will file in Texas. Launch is county by county because venue, portals, and fee schedules are local. Under the 2026 Texas eviction law changes, that local fact has a sharper edge.
Senate Bill 38 (SB 38, 89th Legislature) applies to eviction suits filed on or after January 1, 2026. Rule 510 of the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure is the specialized rule. This section reports Chapter 24 / Rule 510 mechanics, including the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) 30-day notice for covered properties. It is not advice. Check the lease. Consult a Texas attorney.
Venue is the JP precinct of the property. A wrong-precinct filing is dismissed, not transferred. That is why a county-by-county launch and a precinct helper both exist. The helper is based on the information you provided. You confirm the court against the county's current map.
| Topic | What Chapter 24 / Rule 510 describe as of 2026 |
|---|---|
| Notice delivery | In-person to occupant 16+, mail, conspicuous posting; electronic only if written agreement |
| First unpaid-rent late | Notice to pay rent or vacate before a standard notice to vacate |
| Notice period | Default three days (lease may modify); CARES Act 30-day for covered properties |
| Petition | Sworn petition initiates the suit (§24.00505) |
| Venue | JP precinct of the property; wrong precinct dismissed, not transferred |
| Citation | Sheriff or constable; diligent effort by the fifth business day |
| Trial / appeal | Trial generally 10–21 days after filing (hedge county practice); five-day appeal plus sworn good-faith affirmation |
| Summary disposition | Unauthorized occupancy / forcible entry only, not routine nonpayment; occupant has four days |
| Writ | Only law enforcement executes it; self-help lockouts and utility shutoffs are illegal |
§24.0042: exclude the trigger day; weekends and holidays count; a last day on a weekend or holiday rolls to the next business day. E-filing portals — in many Texas counties, eFileTexas — still charge their own fees. Citation is not the landlord's notice. A process-server request is for notice delivery you hire, not a substitute for the constable.
No article or software can guarantee a timeline or an outcome. Uncontested Texas evictions are commonly reported at roughly three weeks to about 75 days, depending on county and appeals. JP filing fees are commonly reported in the tens of dollars; writ fees around $150–$200 — public-source ranges, not a promise. If your county is not live, assemble the four lease fields and consult counsel. Do not treat the waitlist as a filing path.
How Eviction Wizard handles this
You join the waitlist. You build the first case free. You pay the Document Organizer fee when you authorize filing, not when you upload a lease or draft a notice. Founding members lock $149 per case for life. Court fees and third-party fees appear on separate lines before you approve them.
Upload the lease. The tool may extract tenant name, property address, rent amount, and lease dates into the forms you selected. You review and edit. Nothing in that extraction is a filing or a $149 charge.
Enter the property address. For Texas properties, the helper proposes the precinct and JP court commonly associated with that location, including typical filing-fee context and e-filing portal information, framed as based on the information you provided. You confirm the court. The helper is not a guarantee.
When the packet is ready, you submit through the court's e-filing system from the same file. You review, confirm, and authorize. You remain the filer. Case number and hearing information come back to the dashboard.
Request a process server from the same case file. Browse independent process servers. Track notice delivery from acceptance to proof of service. That request does not replace court-directed citation service, and the server's fee is not inside $149.
If you want counsel, use the Attorney Directory. Those attorneys are independent — not employees or agents. Optional attorney review of the packet is a completeness pass, not representation at the hearing.
Tracking stays on after the stamp: citation, hearing, judgment, appeal, writ, possession. Launch is Texas first, county by county. Florida, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada are next and not live. Property-manager bulk filing, team seats, and portfolio guardrails are coming; they are not live.
The product does not advise whether a notice method was sufficient or whether a precinct is correct. Check the lease. Consult a Texas attorney. Eviction Wizard AI Partners, LLC is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice.
Pay the organizer fee only when you authorize filing
Price confusion is how landlords buy a PDF and think they bought a filing. The Document Organizer fee is $149 per case. Founding members lock $149 for life. As of 2026, that is the waitlist organizer price, not a bundled eviction that includes the court.
What $149 is built to cover: state-specific notice options populated for your review; a filing packet from court form templates; e-filing you review, confirm, and authorize; tracking through service, hearing, judgment, appeal, and writ; and deadline alerts.
What $149 is not: the JP filing fee; an e-filing service fee; constable or sheriff citation service; a process-server invoice for notice delivery; a writ fee; or attorney advice, optional completeness review, or representation.
Those exclusions are the point of a pay-at-file move. If you never authorize filing, the $149 line should not have been collected. If you do authorize it, $149 is the software charge; the court and any third party invoice separately.
| Line item | Who typically invoices it | Inside the $149 fee? |
|---|---|---|
| Document Organizer ($149/case; founding members lock $149 for life) | Eviction Wizard | Yes — posts at authorization |
| Court filing fee (JP petition) | The court / clerk | No — commonly reported in the tens of dollars in Texas |
| E-filing service fee | The portal / e-filing provider | No |
| Process-server invoice (notice delivery) | The independent server you request | No |
| Constable / sheriff citation | The county / officer | No — not replaced by a private server request |
| Writ of possession fee | The court / officer | No — commonly reported around $150–$200 in Texas |
| Attorney representation | Independent counsel | No — commonly reported $1,500–$3,000; sometimes cited $1,500–$5,000 |
| Eviction-service company | The service vendor | No — often cited around $475 |
A PM subscription can still be the right bill for the portfolio. It is the wrong default bill for a single forcible-detainer suit you may never file. The move puts the software charge at the same moment you become the filer.
Frequently asked questions
Does joining the waitlist move my current eviction onto Eviction Wizard?
No. The waitlist records your email and your interest in county launch and founding-member rates. The move starts when you assemble the first case file — tenant name, property address, rent amount, and lease dates — and continues when your county is live and you upload the lease. Joining does not file a petition and does not charge $149.
Do I pay $149 to upload a lease or draft a notice?
No. You build the case free. The Document Organizer fee posts when you review, confirm, and authorize submission to the court's e-filing system. If the tenant pays or leaves and you never authorize filing, the $149 line should not appear. Court fees and third-party fees stay separate and should appear before you approve them.
Is my Texas county live, and does the precinct helper guarantee the court?
Launch is Texas first, county by county. Your county may not be open. Florida, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada are next and not live. The precinct / JP helper uses the property address you provided and is not a guarantee. You confirm venue. A wrong-precinct filing is dismissed, not transferred. Check the county map. Consult a Texas attorney.
Does moving to Eviction Wizard replace my attorney or my PM software?
No. Typical attorney fees are commonly reported at $1,500–$3,000, sometimes cited $1,500–$5,000, because counsel advises and appears. The organizer is documents and workflow. Keep the PM ledger for operations. Eviction Wizard AI Partners, LLC is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. Use the Attorney Directory when you want independent counsel.
Can a property manager move a whole portfolio in one import?
Not as of 2026. Bulk filing, team seats, and portfolio guardrails are coming, not live. Move the next case as a single file. Do not budget a bulk import or a team seat that has not shipped. The current product is a landlord case dashboard, not a PM suite replacement.
Who is the filer after I move the case?
You are. You review every document, confirm the packet, and authorize e-filing. The software organizes and transmits. Your name — not the vendor's — is the one the court treats as the filing party. Optional attorney review checks completeness. It does not make the vendor or the reviewer the plaintiff.
The honest bottom line
A move to Eviction Wizard is waitlist, then one case file, then a free build, then $149 only when you authorize filing — with court and third-party invoices on their own lines. Texas launch is county by county; a waitlist is not a live clerk, and a precinct helper is not a venue opinion. You remain the filer, and Eviction Wizard AI Partners, LLC is not a law firm. If that is the next-case path you want, join the Eviction Wizard waitlist.
Next step
Build the case file before you file
Join the waitlist for Texas county-by-county launch. Court fees and third-party fees stay separate.