Annual Management Services
LICENSED SC REAL ESTATE BROKER AND PROPERTY MANAGERS
Property Marketing
Our marketing process includes in-depth advertising and digital listings, to help you find the right tenant the first time. We post listings on our website and any of our listing partners’ pages quickly. Our current partners include Lovely, Apartment List, and the entire Zillow Rental Network, which gets your vacancies in front of millions of rental shoppers on Zillow.com, Trulia, Yahoo!, HotPads, and MyNewPlace. We can also easily post all of our vacancies on Craigslist.
Pre-qualification & scoring for tenants
Fair Housing-compliant pre-screening with scoring to focus only on qualified leads.
In-person showings
We do not just give out keys to your property. Your property is always by a licensed property manager or real estate agent.
Online application links sent
We send rental applications prior to showings as well as immediately following a viewing.
Pre-qualification questions
We will ask your tenant leads questions for pre-screening that will prequalify them prior to any showings.
Wait list
If the current resident has not moved out or the property is being repaired after a moveout, we are collecting pre-qualified leads to view the property.
Owner reports
We keep reports of each rental’s lead and viewing activity that we can share with our owners.
Background Checks
For every qualified applicant, we do a criminal background checks. Over 370 million criminal records from state and national databases provide comprehensive information for Owners. We even dive deeper and screen local public indexes.
Tenant Credit Reports
Credit checks you can trust, designed specifically for tenant screening. SmartMove tenant credit checks use ResidentScore to predict rental eviction risk 15% better* than traditional credit scores, helping property managers and owners make a more confident rental decision.
Tenant Eviction Reports
We use one of the largest evictions databases subject to the FCRA with 27 million eviction records, covering all 50 states plus Washington D.C.
Rent Collection
Are you tired of keeping track of whether you received your monthly rent check? Let us take care of that for you. We will ensure your tenants make payments and deposit the money directly into your account.
Bookkeeping & Reporting
We provide you with online, 24/7 access to reports detailing the performance of your property for the previous month, documenting income and expenses. The data is stored in a secure, state-of-the-art portal system.
Qualified Field Maintenance
Tired of wasting your weekends on rental maintenance? Our full-time maintenance team handles repair requests promptly, keeping your tenants happy, and your property in tip-top shape. We even have an after-hours maintenance staff on call to handle emergencies. We have existing vendor relationships for all repair calls. For multi-unit properties, we can also provide lawn care, parking lot maintenance, and trash removal.
Late Notice and Eviction Filings if needed
Dealing with an eviction is every owner’s nightmare, but you can rest easy knowing that we will take care of the entire process for you. From serving notices to any necessary clean-out procedures, our staff is familiar with the eviction process and ensures that everything is done in accordance with the South Carolina Landlord-Tenant Act. All our forms have been drafted by attorneys, to ensure that they are legally sound. We focus on finding qualified tenants making tenant retention a priority.
Property Inspections
Stop worrying about the condition of your property, and let us keep tabs on it for you. We regularly monitor the homes we manage, identifying potential problems early, before they become expensive repairs. , We can identify hard to spot problems and provide you with a list of recommendations. These annual inspections are performed yearly before each lease renewal.
Legal Compliance
Don’t find yourself operating at-odds with the law! Our team understands the ins and outs of tenant-landlord relationships in South Carolina. For example, it is illegal to co-mingle security deposits with other funds according to the South Carolina Landlord-Tenant Act. We handle all escrow and security deposits for the properties we manage and ensure that they are kept in a certified escrow account. Our property managers and Real Estate Brokers are educated in real estate and housing laws to help the owner be in compliance. Our team also does continuing education yearly to stay up to date on current laws.
Increase Tenant Retention
Tenant retention refers to the turnover rate of tenants at your property. Specifically, tenant retention rates measure the number of tenants that stay at a property for multiple rental periods. We believe that this metric is a great way to help owners keep track of their growth and progress as well as reduce property turnover expenses. We advise owners on how to achieve this with their portfolio.
Know Your Property Is Being Well Managed
It’s all too easy to get bogged down by the day-to-day task of maintaining your property. Sit back relax and spend time doing the things that you love to do and are important to you. Rest assured your property is in good hands.
Sit Back And Collect Your Rent Check
Let us do the heavy lifting while you grow your portfolio!