Rent Ready Standards

What is Rent-Ready?
To comply with our internal housing requirements, every property must meet the below list to be fully advertised and be ‘Rent-Ready’ before being marketed to the public.

Requirements:
  1. Professionally cleaned to ‘Hotel Room Clean’ and odor free
  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. 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.
  5. No lawn equipment including mowers, tools, etc. 
  6. Garage floor swept
  7. No exterior debris
  8. Lawn cut and trimmed
  9. Landscaping fresh and clean
  10. CO detectors installed within 15 feet of each bedroom. ONLY wall mounted, NO plug-in units.
  11. Smoke detector on each floor and in each bedroom and hall servicing bedrooms
  12. Back sliding door must have vertical blinds
  13. All light bulbs working and must be matching – (no curly Qs with regular bulbs in one fixture)
  14. Doors open & close smoothly and doorstops installed on all doors
  15. Bathroom caulking must be fresh and free of any mildew
  16. All mechanical components working as designed. Includes HVAC, plumbing and electrical systems, kitchen appliances, laundry appliances, water softeners, sprinkler systems, gas fireplaces, water filtration systems, etc. 
  17. Safety railings secure
  18. All opening windows should have screens
  19. 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. 
  20. All windows must have vertical or mini-blinds – no draperies on windows
This list is not meant to cover each make-ready required item, but it does list some of the most important and often overlooked.
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