East Riverside is one of Austin’s most rental-dense corridors — a stretch of large apartment communities, condos, and leased homes between I-35 and Highway 71, populated by young professionals, UT students, and renters who want their apartments to feel like real homes. A common frustration comes up over and over with renters: they want a big TV mounted on the wall, but they assume that anything larger than a small panel requires the kind of drilling and wall surgery their landlord won’t allow. They settle for a TV on a stand and live with cables strung along the floor. So when an East Riverside renter reached out about wall-mounting a 75″ TV in their apartment without losing their deposit, we had a solution they didn’t know existed.
The customer was renting, so cutting into the drywall to hide cables was off the table — that’s the kind of damage that costs renters their deposit at move-out. Instead, we mounted the 75″ TV securely into the wall studs with a low-profile fixed mount (a clean, patchable set of mount holes is standard and easily repaired by the renter when they leave), and concealed the cables using a paintable external cord cover that runs flush down the wall from the TV to the outlet. The cord cover hides the power and HDMI cables completely, can be painted to match the wall color so it disappears against the paint, and leaves no significant damage when removed. The renter ended up with a 75″ TV that looks professionally installed — the kind of finish their apartment community would charge a premium for if they were offering it — and zero risk to their security deposit.
Renter-friendly installs are a specific skill set, and mounting a 75″ TV adds a layer most installers won’t take on for renters. A 75″ TV weighs 60-80 pounds — it absolutely needs to be anchored into studs with the right mount rated for the load. There’s no shortcut where you skip the structural anchoring because the customer is renting; the TV still has to be safe to live with for the next two years. The cord cover (also called a cable raceway) is the right tool to hide the cables without cutting the wall: it adheres or screws flush to the drywall, channels all the cabling out of sight, and can be painted to disappear against the wall color. The skill is in mounting the TV solidly, routing the cover in a perfectly straight vertical line so it looks intentional rather than tacked-on, and keeping every hole patchable so the renter walks out at move-out without owing anything. Plenty of renters assume a clean mounted 75″ TV isn’t an option for them — it absolutely is.
Bat City TV handles every type of mounting situation across East Riverside and East Austin — from premium in-wall installs in owned homes to renter-friendly cord cover installs in apartments and leased houses, including large-format TVs up to 98″. Whatever your situation, we have a clean solution. We’re authorized dealers for Samsung, LG, Sony, and Sonos, so we can also sell and install a new TV or soundbar in the same appointment. Our East Riverside service area covers Montopolis, Pleasant Valley, Travis Heights, South Congress, Mueller, and all of East and South Austin.
13 years in Austin. 377 five-star Google reviews. Authorized dealer for Samsung, LG, Sony, and Sonos. Whether you own your home and want wires fully hidden inside the wall or you’re renting and need a clean, deposit-safe install, we have a solution that fits. Call 512-865-6185 or visit batcitytv.com for a free estimate on TV mounting, renter-friendly cord cover installs, large-format TV mounting, or any AV project in East Riverside or anywhere across Austin.
