Tampa Bay Florida-Property Manag

Tampa Bay Florida-Property Management-Rental and Leasing

Let Sells And Associates Take Your Rental Headaches Away! Tampa Bay Property Management

Pulling your hair out, trying to rent and manage your properties? Letting money go down the drain with vacant properties or non-paying tenants? Got repair headaches? Does your phone ring at 3 am? Are you having to chase your tenants down to collect the rent? Well, we can help!

Sells Real Estate, LLC maintains extensive marketing tools to ensure your property is advertised to the prospective rental market, lowering your down time between tenants and increasing your overall profit potential. In the arena of property management, we pride ourselves on personal service, excellent communication and five star marketing. Currently the areas our management team serves are: Pinellas, Pasco, Hillsborough and Hernando Counties. Our owners are both local, national and international.

Having personally been investment property owners, Dick and Dixie Sells, Realtors, realize the immense needs of investor/owners and strive to give the service and care that they always desired. We welcome your inquiries as to how our team can work to help you achieve your goals. Your property will be handled as if it was our own with your return on investment in mind. We maintain a direct toll free line so call today.

*800-303-4400 727-815-7800

When your property is offered for lease and managed by Sells and Associates-Future Home Realty Property Management we offer:

Extensive Internet presence with color photos, virtual tours and brochures
Featured Property On Realtor.com and many other rental based portals.
MLS system entry with working agreements with thousands of area real estate agents
Electronic key box entry for ease of showing and security.
Credit, Criminal, Eviction, and Social Security Verification Background tenant screening
Lawn service available if desired to hold down HOA violations
24/7 Repair Request System - Working relationship with reliable repair companies at reasonable rates
Rental portfolio comprised of annual rentals, both single family homes, villas and condos.

Charges
1st month rent to find a tenant or a minimum of $1,000 whichever is greater.
Full application process. Tenants are screened with a credit, criminal, eviction, and social security verification in our background check (Tenant Paid)
In the event the tenant does not full fill the lease, then we will re-rent the property and only charge you the difference in the remaining term and the new lease. Example: A tenant rents a house and moves in January 1 and the rent is $1,200 per month, and leaves on August 31. We have $1,200 in security deposit which would be used as rent for one month. We re-rent the house with a tenant moving in on October 1 with the same rent. We would charge you $900 for the new tenant instead of the full $1,200 since we would have 3 months from the previous rent that you did not receive value for.
Security deposits are to be used as rent first and if it is not needed for rent, then any repairs that might be warranted with the remaining amount returned to the tenant per Florida Law.

General

• Management fee - 10% of the rent per month or a minimum of $100 per month whichever is greater for the following management services:

1. Billing and collecting the monthly rent
2. Statement and record keeping
3. Security Deposits held in Florida Bank as per Florida Statues
4. Net rent sent to owner monthly via mail or bank deposit.
5. Scheduling repairs paid by tenant - client or both.
6. Collecting late rent -Late fees charged to tenant and retained
7. Collecting NSF/Account Closed checks (Return Check fees charged Tenant )
8. Issue keys and remotes to tenants
9. Retain copies of property entrance keys.
10. Checking in all tenants with a walk thru and noting any issues.
11. Checking out all tenants with a walk thru to make sure all keys and remotes are returned and note any issues that could be a claim against security deposit.
12. Handle getting any repairs under $200 with the tenant and sending an email to client.
13. Manage tenant relationship to insure higher overall tenant satisfaction and lower turn over.

Repairs

• In case of extensive repairs that require us to visit the property, we charge the following:
1. $40 per trip charge per visit. If we can handle by phone NO Charge
2. Pay minor repairs out of pocket with a maximum of any month of $500 and any calendar year of one months rent without prior agreement with client
3. Deduct any out of pocket directly from the monthly rent and net sent to client
4. Work with vendors to get the quality service at an affordable price for all clients
5. Work with vendors to clean up property after move out and ready for new tenant.
6. On Line Tenant Repair Form insures 24/7 notice for tenant convenience and quicker repair times

Evictions

• Although, extensive screening is done, sometimes this is an unavoidable happening.
When this is the case:
1. $40 per hour for all time required of us whether in the field or in court NO MAXIMUM
2. Serving the three day notice and taking the proof photos
3. Working with the attorney on the Eviction process
4. General Clean up after Eviction (See Repairs)
5. If we have to go to court, we charge $40 per hour with a 4 hour minimum + any parking fees

Home Owners Associations

• Handle Association Applications and Approvals
• Check on each alleged violations-photograph
• Notify Tenant of any violations and follow up on compliance
• Notify H. O. A. receipt of violation letter and notice of compliance
Attend H. O. A. Meetings to defend any Violation Fine Handled same as Evictions Fees

Locks & Keys
In order to hold down the cost of tenants moving in and out. We install Kwikset Smart Locks .
We only have to install them once and we do that for a trip charge only No Matter How Many Locks Need Installing
When a tenant moves out, the only charge is $5.00 to you for new keys for the locks as the video shows they are re-keyable
This is for your benefit as much as it is a safety and liability factor for the new tenants.