UNLV rentals and garden apartments: renter-friendly mounts and deposits
Around UNLV and along the airport edge, the housing is garden apartments and rented ranch houses, and the question is what the landlord will let you leave behind. Wood-frame garden apartments are drywall over stud: a fixed bracket on two 5/16-inch lags leaves two 3/8-inch holes that patch in five minutes at move-out, and we photograph the wall before and after for the deposit conversation. Block-walled rentals are trickier; a Tapcon hole in painted block is permanent, so we get written landlord approval before drilling, or offer a freestanding mount. Cables go in a removable surface raceway, never in the wall. Bracket choice follows the lease: a fixed or tilt mount puts four holes in the wall, while a full-motion arm needs six, so we default to the smaller footprint in a rental. Student move-ins cluster in August, when a unit with the AC off is brutal; we show up anyway and work fast. Rental installs run 45-60 minutes, and you get the anchor locations in writing for the patch list at move-out.