First-time using property management?

What do property management companies in Northern Virginia do?

If this is your first-time looking at hiring a rental property manager, you may want to understand more about what exactly rental property managers do.  If this reference doesn't answer all your questions, we're always happy to help.

Collect Rents

Nesbitt Realty puts funds from rent into an escrow account and from that account we disburse funds to pay bills, income to the property owner and fees to the property management company.

Keep Records

Nesbitt Realty keeps an accounting of all income and payables. We send monthly statements to the landlord and at the end of the year we prepare a 1099 tax document and an annual statement for tax preparation. These records are also available electronically if you prefer.

Deal with the Association

When required, we deal with homeowner's association (or condo association). If the tenant is in violation of HOA/COA covenants, we give official notice to the tenant and take steps to put your tenant in compliance.  We keep you apprised of notices and necessary actions.

Legal Compliance

Nesbitt Realty ensures that your rental property complies with state laws, local Northern Virginia ordinances, licensing requirements, association rules, Fair Housing laws, insurance requirements, IRS requirements.

Handle Maintenance

Nesbitt Realty manages and dispatches maintenance personnel as needed. We try to have work done in a prompt manner at a price and quality acceptable to the property owner.

Inspections

Nesbitt Realty inspects the property at the time of move-in at the time of move-out and from time-to-time during tenancy.

Provide a Level of Separation

This is the one duty that no property owner can perform. A level of separation ensures professionalism is always maintained and personal feelings do not enter into the equation. Nesbitt Realty manages tenant relations including maintenance requests, late fee notices. We deal with a laundry list of tenant problems:

  • unauthorized guests, unauthorized pets,
  • parking issues,
  • tenant cleanliness,
  • noise violations,
  • neighbor complaints, etc.

If necessary, we manage the process of prosecuting actions to evict Tenants.

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Should you know more about our community?

Our Guide to Real Estate is a free tool for anyone who wants to investigate real estate facts about Northern Virginia and neighboring communities.  The Guide to Real Estate provides facts regarding what has sold and what is on the market, as well as many interesting facts that you may not know.  Furthermore, our Guide highlights many of the fundamentals of residing in Northern Virginia.  Definitely, most of this is useful for purchasers and sellers, but owners and renters will also find this data to be very informative.

More Information

If you've never hired a rental property management company in Northern Virginia before, you should want to understand as much as possible about management and what property management companies actually do. Feel free to call and discuss specific questions.

Money in general does not flow from the landlord to the property manager. Money flows from the tenant to the property manager to the landlord.  Fees and commissions are withheld from collected rents. The next step is to learn a little more about what differentiates us from other property managers.

 

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