The first step is to choose a service plan which best meets your needs. Once you have chosen the service plan that that’s right for you, contact us via the web form, or at (916) 573-1730, to discuss the next steps. We will need you to complete a Property Management Agreement, which will spell out many of the terms of service. 

Once you have signed the Property Management Agreement, the next step is to decide what is needed to get the place “rent ready.” Call us at (916) 573-1730 to schedule a walk-through, where we will take notes and offer suggestions on what (if anything) is needed, in order to get the place rent ready. This could include garbage removal, cleaning, painting, carpeting, or re-keying. Once the place is rent ready, we will take photos, and advertise the property for rent. Advertising is included as part of our Full-Service Property Management, and is included with all three Service Plans. 

After the Property Management Agreement is signed, and after we have walked the property, taken photos, and ensured the property is rent-ready, we will then begin advertising your property for rent. We advertise through rental websites including Zillow, Hotpads.com, Trulia, and others. We will create an attractive ad for your property, and help you establish a competitive rental price for your rental listing, based on a customized “Rental Market Analysis” of your property, which we will prepare for you.

The next step after advertising the property, is to receive and screen rental applicants. Included as part of all three of our Full-Service Property Management plans, we will process the applications that are received, and screen the applicants. The screening process involves verifying the identity of the applicant, as well as verifying employment, income, past rental references, and credit, to determine the quality of the applicant. Once it is determined that an applicant is likely to be a good fit for the rental, we will then draft a Lease Agreement for the Tenant and for you (the Owner) to sign.

Once you’ve signed the Property Management Agreement, we will set you up with an Owner Portal through our property management software, “Rentvine.” Note: the Rentvine platform does not allow owners to create their own accounts, so this must be set up on our end. Once your owner account has been set up, a link with your login details will be emailed to you. 

Although we are a Full Service Property Management Company, and can help with tenant placement, if you already have tenants in place, we are able to help with that also. We can take on existing Leases, and even form new Leases with existing tenants. Usually the transition is very simple and straightforward, however, each situation is different, and must be evaluated independently. Note: If you have a tenant in place, and are considering evicting the tenant for non-payment of rent (or other), that is probably not a tenant we will take on…we are not an eviction company. However, if you need an eviction company, there are several eviction companies (attorneys) who can help you evict problematic tenants, at a fee.