Tourtelot Property Management provides a full array of leasing services for owners of residential properties in St. Petersburg. With our leasing services, you don’t have to post ads, take photos, or manage phone calls. You don’t have to meet with potential tenants, show the property, or answer questions from tenants. You don’t have to worry about background checks, document collection, or lease signing.
We take care of everything and focus on getting the right tenant into your property the first time.
Property Preparation
Leasing services encompass all the early steps taken in renting a property. It involves much more than finding a tenant and having them sign a lease and get the keys. Preparing a property for rental is critical to attracting quality tenants.
Our property managers in St. Petersburg, FL, are here to help make sure your property is in tip-top condition. This means working with a maintenance contractor to have it cleaned, repaired, painted, or even remodeled.
We also facilitate the installation of any safety devices that we deem necessary. A safe, well-maintained, and aesthetically pleasing property has a higher chance of attracting multiple qualified tenant applications. It also helps ensure that a new tenant settles into the property smoothly with fewer surprises.
Property preparation with Tourtelot Property Management also entails conducting a property price analysis. We check what similar listings in the area are currently listed for and provide you with a detailed rent estimate. We will help you choose a price that best fits your goals and maximizes your profitability.
Aggressive Marketing
Once your property is ready for the market, the next step in achieving a long-term lease involves advertising the property to your target audience. We want your investment property to continue putting money into your pocket for a long time without having issues with your tenants.
We work with professional photographers to take quality, high-definition photos of your property for marketing. We understand that qualified tenants are more likely to be attracted to property advertisements that have pictures.
We then make sure the property is listed on different rental websites and social media. We also work with investors, realtors, and industry pros within our referral network to expose your property to more potential applicants.
Vacancy Showing
Potential tenants will obviously want to become acquainted with what could become their home. Our leasing services include walkthroughs with applicants and addressing their concerns to help establish if your property meets their unique needs.
We provide fast responses to all inquiries and conduct showings within 24 hours of requests. Our property managers will be onsite for all viewings. Finding the right applicant is key to a long-term tenancy.
Tenant Screening
The primary goal of our leasing services in Florida is to attract and retain THE RIGHT tenants who will pay rent on time and take good care of your property. We have experience running full criminal, credit, and eviction history checks. What’s more, we do income and employment verification and know what red flags to look for during the tenant screening process.
If everything looks good and the prospective tenant decides to rent your property, we require them to pay a deposit and sign a deposit-holding agreement. This deposit is meant to take the property off the market before the move-in date.
If our background check reveals something questionable about an applicant, we will get you involved in the approval process. The decision is yours to make, after all.
Lease Agreement and Move-In
Once a tenant is approved, our property managers will perform the tenant move-in procedures, which involve creating a legal lease agreement and performing a move-in inspection. We don’t want you to use a generic lease agreement off the internet or something you’ve cut and pasted together.
We write up leases on a regular basis and can help you create a personalized lease that reflects our state’s ever-changing laws. Our residential property managers are also fully aware of the disclosures that a landlord must make to a tenant.
We handle the whole process for you and get the paperwork ready for the tenant to sign. What’s more, we provide a final walkthrough with the tenant and take detailed photos or videos to record the property’s condition upon tenant move-in. Any pertinent tenant information will be added to your files once the tenant moves in. The security deposit and the first month’s rent will then be transferred to you.
If taking over the day-to-day management of your property once the tenant(s) move in becomes more of a challenge, we’re happy to step in and provide you with our full-service property management.
Contact us today to learn more about our property management services in St. Petersburg.
