Marketing my rental

[Patrick Thomas Dickinson]

My situation: 

-I live in California and I am closing on a property that will be available for rent effective sept 1st. 

- This property is in Conroe Texas

- My plan is to market the rental myself on zillow, hotpads, realtor.com, trulia etc 

- From what I understand rental demand is high in the area due to housing shortages. 

- I am planning on establishing an interest list of prospective tenants and then flying and out to Texas to do a weekend long open house as well as inviting people to apply on zillow rental manager as well.  

Im just wondering how you other bigger pockets members would juggle this situation being that I want to place a tenant myself and not go through my realtor to place a tenant. ?

I feel like a lot of people would be reluctant to pay and fill out an application without first seeing the house. Any thoughts or suggestions.?