Leasing With Bridge Home Realty
We will act as the bridge between you and your tenants, contractors or any other necessary services for your property. From move-in to move-out, we will handle rent collection, inspections, maintenance and repairs, legal situations and evictions, if necessary.
Our property management team will take care of finding a tenant for your property, run a background check, employment verification and distribute move-in instructions and a checklist.
Marketing Your property for rent
- Prepare home for rent
- Make sure the home is clean and optimizes the interior appeal
- Create ads tailored to the property and advertising medium. Some of the mediums commonly used are:
- Paid and free rental listing websites
- Work with relocation companies for incoming clients
- Signs
- MLS
- Fliers
- Work with other realtors and leasing agents to find a tenant
- Provide a dedicated website where prospective tenants can see detailed information about each property listed to rent
- Take calls from prospects for questions and showing for the property
- Meet prospective clients for showings on weekdays, evenings and weekends
- Provide prospective clients with rental applications
- Collect applications with application fee via online portal
Tenant screening and selection
- Perform a background/credit check to verify identity, income, credit history, rental history, eviction history and criminal history
- Grade tenant according to predefined point sheet for all of the above
- Provide Adverse action letters to tenants declined from screening
- Provide “Welcome” email along with all steps in order to rent the property
Highlights
- We currently manage over 500 residential units and a dozen commercial properties
- We’ve written over 2500 leases in the last decade
- Since 2010, we’ve had only 9 evictions (less than 1%) of tenants we’ve placed in properties
- Less than 1% of our properties have turn over repairs in excess of tenants deposit
- Current rental price is 11% higher than owners who lease themselves or with other agents
- Current average days on market for a vacant property is 12 days
- In the last 24 months we have had only 3 property go vacant between tenants (not including evictions which aberage vacancies of less than 12 days from possession to new lease)
- Repair, renovation and rehab costs average 14% lower than industry average