Is Your Property Really Rent Ready?

We get a lot of requests from landlords to begin marketing their home for rent. Once we go to the property, we realize that is not always the case. Your definition of “rent ready” may be different than our definition of “rent ready.” We will never be able to market your home for rent if it is not in a state that we would live in ourselves. 

We rent homes at almost every price point, from roughly $250 per month on up. We realize that every rental property is not the Taj Mahal or in the Hamptons. Your rental unit does not need granite countertops or brand new tiled walk-in showers. It doesn’t even have to be up to current building code. (Most every home we manage isn’t because building codes change all the time!) But it does need to be clean, safe and habitable.

What do those three words mean?

Clean – Do we expect every home to be clean enough to eat off the floor? Of course not. It is a rental home. It is going to get traffic in and out as it gets shown. A little dust here or there isn’t a big deal in our opinion. But if you have had a tenant in place, your home probably needs a deep clean before a new tenant takes possession. The showers should be free of any mildew or grime. The baseboards should not have any accumulated dust. There should not be any dust bunnies roaming around anywhere (including ceiling fans).