Providing "No Worries" Property Management since 1988
Let our experience go to work for you!
Finding Tenants Fast:
Marketing
Homes For Now markets your property on over 350 real estate websites. In addition to that, we take the extra step that most Property Management companies don’t; we list your property on the MLS. This gives your property maximum exposure to Realtors and their thousands of clients. This is all included in the Property Leasing Services fee and there is no additional hidden cost to you!
Showings
Our highly qualified licensed real estate agents coordinate and perform in-person showings with prospective tenants when tenants are available. Our agents work nights and weekends!
Documents
We provide all necessary documents needed to complete a leasing transaction. These forms include but are not limited to lease agreements, walk thru forms, and addendums. We also offer a cost saving option for leasing services only if desired.
Tenant Screening
All our tenants go through a rigorous screening process to ensure only the best most qualified tenant. Our tenant screenings include but are not limited to credit checks, reference checks, criminal background checks, job history, income and rental history.
Move-In
Our Property Leasing Services will handle all move-ins with new tenants. The move-in process consists of going through the property with the new tenant and performing a thorough check of the property to ensure a smooth transition between tenants at the end of each lease.
Management That Makes You Money:
Rent Collection
We collect the rent. Sounds easy – but what if you don’t have a pre-screened, professionally interviewed, credit approved and background-checked tenant? Even when you do, there could be problems – life happens, even to the best people. That’s when you need our property management services to be your interface with the tenant. When the tenant knows that a large, property management organization is his landlord, they are much less likely to make trouble. Or not pay the rent. We make it easy for tenants to pay – we can accept electronic funds transfers, electronic checks, and all major credit cards.
Enforce Lease Terms
This not only includes making sure the rent is paid. Enforcing the terms of the lease includes many things down to making sure lawn care and snow removal are being taken care of – all part of "No Worries" Management!
Coordinate Maintenance
We demand the best rates. We give our contractors so much business they will do quality work, and they will charge us less for doing it – which means YOU save money! We DON’T charge coordination fees, or percentages on top of contractor’s invoices. We’re happy with our management fee. We pass along ALL the savings from contractor’s discounted invoices to you, so you can SAVE MONEY!
Provide Monthly and Annual Financial Statements
You get a statement from us including all bank activity for your property, and copies of all invoices. And, of course, you get that check every month. In addition to that, at the beginning of every year you get a complete breakdown of all your income and expenses for each unit for the previous year, so that tax filing is a breeze.
File Minnesota CRP Forms
The laws for Minnesota Propery Management require every landlord to send a CRP form to each tenant every January. CRP forms are confusing, time-consuming and a big hassle – unless we manage your property. Don’t worry, we complete and mail those pesky CRP forms for you at no extra charge.
Monitor Tenant Utility Bills
This is a step many property management companies skip. In most cases, tenants are required to pay all utilities. We monitor all utility billing for you so that you don’t get stuck with a big bill. This alone could save you the entire cost of management.
24 Hour Property Turnover
No tenant lasts forever. What happens when the old tenant moves out, and you need a new one? In most cases, we can have your property ready overnight so that the new tenant can move right in, without any gap in tenancy. If you do it yourself, it could take 2 or 3 weeks, which means one month’s rent is lost. No gaps between tenants – another way our property managements services save you money!
Manage Security Deposits
There are many laws that go into managing and returning security deposits. Homes For Now takes that stress away. We properly handle security deposits and return them to the tenant in a timely fashion. We also handle the entire (and complicated) security deposit claims process, making sure any damages, charges and lease-mandated amounts tenants may owe are recovered for you.
Direct Deposit
Homes For Now offers direct deposit for sending property owners their rent money. There is no additional cost for using our direct deposit system.
City Licensing
Most cities in and around the Twin Cities metro area now require a rental license for all rental property, and a licensing inspection process. Homes For Now will help you obtain this license as well as coordinate the inspections that go along with them and you only pay the license fee, we add no additional fees on top.
All This and Low Fees Too!
Complete "No Worries" Management virtually pays for itself with a low, flat monthly fee, top-of-market rent rates to boost your income and reduced costs for repairs and maintenance with vigilant management and the volume savings we pass along to you.
Bring us your empty property, and we will fill it with a great tenant on a 1-year lease for $99 total out of pocket! Call or email today for details.
We’re ready to go to work for you!