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Summary
What’s rental property management?
Rental property management is hiring someone to supervise and manage all your rental property’s operations ranging from tenant relations, rent management, property marketing, legal protection, and more. When looking for rental property management, its vital to find someone with the credentials and experience to oversee your property correctly. Here at Zapien Properties, we’re fully certified as property managers. Our certification number is #1013041.
What are the benefits of hiring Santa Clara rental property management?
The benefits of hiring a Santa Clara rental property management company are vast. For example, we handle over 20 different operations when overseeing your property such as tenant relations, rent increases, evictions, and much more, which allows you to reserve your personal time. Another benefit of hiring a property manager is the legal protection you and your property receive. Your property must uphold landlord-tenant local laws and pass inspections, which are all managed for you.
Our Process
Our Santa Clara rental property management process is simple. Firstly, we’ll get in touch over the phone and schedule a formal meeting in person. During this meeting, we’ll discuss all your unique needs for your rental unit to understand your vision. We’ll also explain what we can do to help those needs. If you like what we offer, we’ll sign the property management agreement and begin managing your property that very same day, while following our newly established game plan.
Why Choose Us
Here at Zapien Properties, we collectively manage over 160+ rental units for all our clients across the Silicon Valley. With those properties, we manage over $500,000 of monthly rent for our clients.
In addition to our property management services, we are also Realtors fully licensed in CA. If you ever need to buy, sell, or invest in property, we can also help with that.
Pricing and Deals
Average Cost of: Santa Clara rental property management
Below is an image from GoodLifeMgmt, illustrating the average monthly cost of Santa Clara rental property management, which is about 7-10% of the rental unit’s monthly rent. Keep in mind those rates are California averages and do not reflect our own pricing. We’re proud to offer our own affordable pricing to landlords, often beating the California average.
Our Special Rate for: Santa Clara rental property management
As of this writing, October 2024, we have a special deal of 8% for our Full Service Property Management. Our Full Service Property Management is our biggest service, handling everything on your behalf. We handle all tenant relations, legal oversight, maintenance, property marketing, and rent collection/increases. If this limited time deal is no longer, please visit our Deals page to see all are new property management deals to help you save.
Possible Savings for: Santa Clara rental property management
Our Process
1. Initial Contact
You contact us either by phone or email.
2. Initial Consultation
We meet in person (preferably) to get to know each other and discuss your property management needs. In instances where landlords are out of state, we will meet over a call or FaceTime.
3. Sign Agreement (PMA)
After we confirm we’re a good fit for each other, we’ll sign our property management agreement.
4. Property Preparation
We begin to prepare your property for rent. Your property will be renovated if necessary, touch-up, and repaired. Work will be performed to ensure the property is presentable, safe, and ‘rent-ready’. If you’re hiring us while your property is already rented with tenants, the following 5-12 steps will be skipped.
5. Property Photography
Your property will have its pictures taken in a presentable, professional, and appealing manner in an attempt to entice prospects to request showings.
6. Property Marketing & Listing
The property will be listed on various online platforms such as Zillow, HotPads, MLS, RedFin, and Trulia.
7. Showings
Showings will be scheduled and conducted on your behalf to interested prospects.
8. Applications
Applications will be collected from every interested family.
9. Tenant Screening & Selection
All applications will be compared. We will run credit, criminal background, rental history, and financial checks to ensure applicants meet our criteria in the pursuit of finding the best tenants.
10. Create Lease & Sign
We’ll discuss your unique and customized lease-terms. Your unique lease-terms will be added onto the lease we create for you. They’ll outline your preferences that your future tenant must follow. Signatures will be collected from you and all occupants involved.
11. Collect Security Deposit
Prior to move-in, the tenant’s security deposit will be collected and held in our Brokerage’s trust account.
12. Move-in Inspection
Before anybody moves in, the property will be inspected, photographed, and documented. Its condition will be noted. This info will be used to compare the property’s condition after tenants move out to calculate security deposit deductions.
13. Software Setup
You the landlord, and tenants will be setup in our software. There, rent will be automatically collected from tenants and reallocated to you in a timely manner. Tenants can also submit maintenance requests and perform other tasks ongoing.
14. Ongoing Management & Support
We will routinely keep in touch with you to provide updates on your property. Tenants will also have our number as a hotline to call us for all necessities.
Why Us
Expertise:
We’re proud to be a certified property manager in California who handles over 160 rental units, while also managing over $500,000 of monthly rent on behalf of our clients/landlords. After years in this field, we’ve become a part of organizations such as NARPM (National Association of Residential Property Managers, SILVAR (Silicon Valley Association of Realtors), MLS (Multiple Listing Service), CAR (California Association of Realtors), and The Property Network (our parent brokerage).
Customization:
We understand every landlord has different preferences and carefully listen to what they are. As your property manager, we customize your lease to fit your preferences for things such as:
Lease term, lease type, pet policy, and tenant screening requirements, amongst other things.
Client Support:
We pride ourselves in providing our clients with the best support. No time is ever too late to call us and no question is out of our experience’s reach.
Satisfaction Guarantee:
We guarantee your satisfaction with our service, and if there’s something you dislike, we’ll do everything in our power to make it right. We like to think of ourselves as fair, capable, and considerate professionals, and are always ready to listen to our clients’ needs.
Conclusion
In conclusion, Santa Clara rental property management is professional oversight of your rental unit on your behalf. Your rental unit will be managed in all areas, allowing you to focus on earning – completely hands off. Your property will be legally protected, your tenants will be kept content, and your property will continuously earn more as we systematically increase rent to match market value.
For a limited time, our special rate is only 8% for our full service property management. If this offer is no longer available in the future, visit our Deals page to see our newest deals to help you save the most on property management. Call us at 408-449-6888 to have us become your trusted property manager.