Getting Your Property Rent Ready

Full Rent-Ready Requirements

Every property must meet the below list in order to be fully advertised and be ‘Rent-Ready’.

Requirements:

1. Professionally cleaned to ‘Hotel Room Clean’.
2. Carpet professionally cleaned and looking fresh.
3. All painted surfaces fresh with no mis-match touch-up areas and repainting must be done corner to corner.
4. All bedroom windows must have vertical or mini-blinds
5. No personal property or items in the unit. This includes furniture, knickknacks, toiletries, shower curtains, Kleenex boxes, kitchen or bathroom items, soap dispenser, pictures, etc.
6. No lawn equipment including mowers, tools, etc.
7. Garage floor swept.
8. No exterior debris.
9. Lawn cut and trimmed.
10. Landscaping fresh and clean.
11. Carbon monoxide detectors installed per each floor in buildings that have CO generating appliances.
12. Smoke detector on each floor and smoke detector for each bedroom.
13. Back sliding door must have vertical blinds.
14. All light bulbs working
15. Doors open & close smoothly and doorstops installed on all doors.
16. Bathroom caulking must be fresh and free of any mildew.
17. All mechanical components working as designed. Includes HVAC, plumbing and electrical systems, kitchen appliances, laundry appliances, sump pumps, water softeners, sprinkler systems, gas fireplaces, water filtration systems, etc.
18. Safety railings secure.
19. Exterior window wells require covers.
20. Wood-burning fireplace(s), if operational, shall be clean of any debris and have a fireplace screen or heat-proof glass doors installed. If non-operational, the fireplace opening on the interior of the home shall be permanently sealed with an aesthetically pleasing material.

Recommendations:

1. All windows (except basement windows) should have vertical or mini blinds.
2. No draperies on windows.
3. All windows that open have screens.

This list is not meant to cover each and make-ready required item, but it does list some of the most important and often overlooked.