Making Your Property Rent Ready
Our full-service management program will ensure your property is 100% rent-ready. This will ensure legal compliance and also help to attract and retain high quality tenants.
We are proud of the homes we manage and are committed to providing safe, clean, and well maintained homes to our residents.
In order to comply with the California Habitability laws and our internal 33 Property Management standards, the below rent-ready items must be completed before we will fully advertise or rent a property.
Rent-Ready Requirements
Exterior
- Landscaping: Fresh, clean, mowed & trimmed
- Paint: Fresh & clean, no peeling paint
- Garage: Broom swept with no debris or personal property
- Other: All window wells must have covers. No lawn equipment, tools, or personal property
Interior
- Appliances / Mechanical: All appliances and mechanical components must be fully functioning and working as designed.
- Carbon Monoxide: Wall mounted carbon monoxide detectors installed within 15 feet of each bedroom. No wall plug-in units.
- Carpet: Professionally cleaned. No stains, no odor.
- Cleanliness: Hotel-room clean. Kitchen and bathroom appliances and fixtures should shine. The importance of cleanliness cannot be overstated.
- Doors / Locks: All exterior doors must have working locks. All exterior doors must be rekeyed between tenancies. All interior doors should have doorstops installed.
- Kitchen / Bathrooms: Fresh caulking and free of mildew.
- Lights: Each fixture must have working and matching light bulbs.
- Paint: Fresh & clean, no scuffs or mismatched touch-ups.
- Personal Property: No personal property left behind. This includes furniture, toiletries, shower curtains, pictures. No owner-lock off areas.
- Smoke Detector: Smoke detectors on each floor and in each bedroom.
- Unfinished Basements: Broom swept with no debris or personal property.
- Windows: All windows must have working locks. No draperies. All second story bedrooms windows that open must have screens. All bedrooms must have blinds.
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Safety
Resident safety is essential. All exterior doors and windows must have functioning locks. The property must be re-keyed between tenants.
Pricing
Given the current supply and demand dynamics of the Denver rental market, properties should be appropriately aggressive in pricing and may include move-in incentives.
Ensuring your property is fully rent-ready will help to attract and retain high quality renters.
This list is not meant to address each and every make-ready item. Rather it is a minimum standard overview to ensure legal habitability standards are met as well as internal Grace Management property requirements.
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What We Do as Your San Diego Property Manager
Getting Your Property Rent Ready
When a resident moves out, we complete the security deposit disposition process. We then oversee the make-ready process on your behalf to ensure your property meets the detailed California habitability standards, attracts high quality residents, and rents quickly.
Legal Compliance
California highly regulates all aspects of renting a home. From advertising to applicant screening and lease language, required repair timelines and security deposit return requirements; we ensure full legal compliance to minimize the risk of owning rental real estate in Colorado.
Marketing
Effective marketing is a key to attract high quality applicants. We prepare a custom market analysis for each property we manage to determine the optimal rent to maximize the financial return on your investment.
Tenant Screening
Our time-tested applicant screening process combines personalized processing and advanced data search technology to keep the bad tenants out and attract long term, high quality residents.
Lease Execution & Renewals
We utilize California Association of Realtors forms for our lease package for maximum legal protection. We also incorporate proprietary documents to increase protection for our owners and investors.
Rent Collection
We believe that if you do not get paid, then we should not get paid either. We work to ensure you get paid on time, and our rental collection rate averages 100%.
Maintenance
We are available 24/7 to protect your property from middle-of-the-night emergencies. We have maintenance and cost protocols to ensure legal compliance with habitability response timelines, and we pre-screen all of our vendors.
Financial
With our detailed financial reporting tools and secure online owner portal, you will have 24/7 online access to your financial information.
Eviction & Pet Protection
If a legal eviction becomes necessary, we will pay your legal fees up to $1,500 with our Gold Management package. If a pet does damage to your property, we will pay for that too, up to $1,000 with our Gold Management package.
