The Importance Of Meeting Rent Ready Standards

We are committed to providing safe, clean, and properly maintained homes to our residents.

Meeting this standard is not only the right thing to do, it’s what separates the pros from the amateurs.

In order to comply with both internal and local rental housing requirements, every property must meet the below list in order to be fully advertised and be ‘Rent Ready’.

Requirements:

  • Professionally cleaned to ‘Hotel Room Clean’
  • Carpet professionally cleaned and looking fresh
  • All painted surfaces fresh with no mis-match touch-up areas and repainting must be done corner to corner.
  • 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.
  • No lawn equipment including mowers, tools, etc.
  • Garage floor swept
  • No exterior debris
  • Lawn cut and trimmed
  • Landscaping fresh and clean
  • Carbon monoxide detectors installed within 15 feet of each bedroom.
  • Smoke detector on each floor
  • Smoke detector in each bedroom
  • Back sliding door must have vertical blinds
  • All light bulbs working
  • Doors open & close smoothly and doorstops installed on all doors
  • Bathroom caulking must be fresh and free of any mildew
  • All mechanical components working as designed. Includes HVAC, plumbing and electrical systems, kitchen appliances, laundry appliances, sump pumps, water softeners, sprinkler systems, water filtration systems, etc.
  • Safety railings secure
  • Exterior window wells require covers
  • 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:

  • All windows (except basement windows) should have vertical or mini blinds.
  • No draperies on windows.
  • All windows should 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.

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