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:
- Professionally cleaned to ‘Hotel Room Clean’ and odor free
- 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
- CO detectors installed within 15 feet of each bedroom. ONLY wall mounted, NO plug-in units.
- Smoke detector on each floor and in each bedroom and hall servicing bedrooms
- Back sliding door must have vertical blinds
- All light bulbs working and must be matching – (no curly Qs with regular bulbs in one fixture)
- 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, water softeners, sprinkler systems, gas fireplaces, water filtration systems, etc.
- Safety railings secure
- All opening windows should have screens
- 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.
- 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.