Tuesday, June 29, 2010

High-Quality Residential Property Management


By Winston Jenkins

Do you want to lease or sell your property? The property rental market of Hemet has been changing every year. If you wish to deal in property in Hemet, you may consider going to a property administration company. You may not be able to find the right deals and may also end up getting duped. Professionals will enable you to spot the right deals and get the most out of your property. Their services include leasing, holding management, and selling small income properties.

What is property management?

The above phrase refers to the supervision of commercial or residential real estate properties. It also means managing personal property, physical capital assets, repairing and maintaining capital assets.

Services provided by the real estate management companies in Hemet

The real estate companies offer a wide range of services to their customers. Some of them are discussed below.
Managing rental property: Some asset management companies specialize in managing condominiums, town homes, and family homes that have been rented out. The companies operate on behalf of the person who has rented out the holding.
Leasing: An impressive and attractive marketing program is often used to get properties leased out fast. The companies perform widespread investigation in order to search for the most suitable tenants. After all the required investigation is done, a final approval is taken from the owner. Then the holding is promptly made ready for leasing.

Performing administrative tasks: The real estate companies take utmost care in performing the day-to-day administrative tasks that are crucial for asset-maintenance.
Maintenance: Another most important task is maintenance of physical capital assets. Skilled vendors are hired to maintain assets. Unforeseen maintenance expenses are guaranteed by the real estate maintenance companies.
Rent collection: Some companies specialize in the collection of rent on from tenants. If the rent is not cleared by the fifth day of every month then the tenant is called and is given a notice of three days to pay the rent or vacant the place. This relieves clients of having to deal with problematic tenants.

Accounting: Calculation of costs and expenses is among the other services offered by the physical capital asset managing companies.The fees for asset supervisory services depend on the gross monthly rent. Some property management companies of Hemet charge no startup fees. Moreover, they also provide several discounts to their customers.

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Sunday, June 27, 2010

Rental Management Standard Operating Procedures Can Save Your Business Or Assure Your Success


By Blake Dale Ratcliff

Many companies simply go about the business of operating their properties with no standardized property management plan and processes. Invoices are recorded, fees are charged, leases are completed, managers come, managers go, and slowly but surely a general way of doing business develops. No doubt, for many companies this can work. However, if opportunities to purchase new properties or manage additional properties arise the hap hazard foundation becomes the company's Jericho and the walls eventually come tumbling down.

Disciplined businesses operate under disciplined processes. The key to creating a scalable effective operation is recognizing and implementing a plan to achieve this. Don't become concerned that your processes are not complete or that issues have developed. Instead focus on identifying priority processes and documenting these. Also, don't become overly concerned about documenting every idea and step that you feel may be needed. As before, focus on what can be reasonably accomplished. Secondarily, document all the areas should be standardized in writing. Then establish a schedule and milestones toward documenting these items.

In general, the major factor that stops most managers from documenting processes is becoming overwhelmed with all that they believe they should document. Overwhelmed gives way to defeat gives way to accepting the current condition. On the other hand, focusing on what can be accomplished and completing these smaller steps leads to satisfaction leads to further commitment leads to complete procedures.

The major areas to create procedures for are reasonably obvious:

· Transaction records and files,

· Banking transaction records and accurate cash balances,

· Resident qualification and records,

· Customer management including billing, late notices, and collections, and

· Maintenance management and records

Clearly, you should want to jump into accounting procedures, but this could prove daunting and if your records are already incorrect you may be making matters worse when you need real support this step. On the other hand, if you have an accurate well organized ledger of every transaction with equally well organized files, an accountant can quickly and reasonable cost produce complete statements. Thus, accomplishing this single items goes far to put management on the right track.

Next accurate deposit and payments on accounts will provide good data for bank reconciliations, prevent over drawn transactions, and protect cash integrity.

Finally, the last three items will assure that new residents are qualified well, revenue quality stays high, residents are currents, and evictions move smoothly. Customer service quality will be good and the property reputation and management reputation will be solid.

As you can see, limiting the focus creates the foundation for a quality operation supported by ever improving high quality processes and procedures.

Blake Ratcliff (US Naval Academy Graduate & Marine Officer, Serial startup entrepreneur, COO/CEO, multifamily / residential investment founder, and property manager).

Blake's crafted 100+ business plans, prepared and delivered 1000+ investor presentations, and is an expert financial modeler. A deeply experienced real estate business person and startup business expert, Blake hones your Business plans, reports, and presentations.

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