Window replacement costs in Killeen

Killeen grew up beside Fort Hood. The post started in 1942 as a tank destroyer training center near the town, and it now spans 218,000 acres across Bell and Coryell counties. It's a renters' town: about half the occupied homes in the city of Killeen are rented, by the Census Bureau's count.

If you own one of those rentals, Texas law shapes the window order. Under the Texas Property Code, with some exceptions, a rental dwelling must have security devices that include window latches, installed at the landlord's expense, the state Attorney General's office explains. A replacement window in a rental has to leave the job with a latch that works. If a latch is missing or broken, the tenant has the right to ask for it to be installed or repaired, and the law gives tenants further remedies when a landlord won't fix a security problem and the tenant follows the required steps.

The climate sets the rest. Bell and Coryell counties are both in climate zone 2, hot-humid on the national energy code map. That's the same zone as Harris and Galveston counties on the coast, even though Killeen sits well inland.