Ballard Realty Property Management strives to provide the best Property Management and Leasing Services in town. We are local, we are reliable and we are trustworthy. We will list your property competitively and quickly secure you a qualified tenant. Our goal is to provide that personal touch that only a family business can offer.

It’s simple. The first step would be to contact us for an over the phone consultation or a face to face meeting. Next we initiate a simple Authority to Rent form for you sign, collect keys from you and immediately list your property for rent. We will show the unit to prospective tenants, do a thorough background check on applicants and sign a lease with the approved tenants.

Prior to advertising your property, we will come in and take pictures. We will then advertise the vacancy on our vacancy flyer at our office, on our website, Craigslist and many other free internet site. If permitted, we will put a for rent sign up in front of the property.

Prior to a tenant moving in, and before advertising if possible, we require that the following turnover items are completed by our vendors; carpet cleaning, blind cleaning, general cleaning and touchup painting. This will insure that your property is appealing to prospective tenants and move in ready.

There is no way to predict how long a property will remain on the market, even in the best market conditions. However, we do work diligently to rent the property as quickly as possible. The most important objective is to find a quality tenant as bad tenants will only create more expense and another unwanted vacancy. Waiting for the right tenant is worth the additional time it can take to rent the property. We do our best to find the best tenant possible in the quickest amount of time.

Once a tenant completes an application, we will do a credit check, criminal background check, verify employment or source of income and get a current and previous rental reference. We have very strict qualifying standards and work diligently to find the best tenants possible. 

We collect a security deposit equal to the rental amount when a tenant signs a lease. If you have approved pets for your property we take an additional pet deposit. We take $250 for a cat and $400 for a dog. If there is a combination, for example, a cat and a dog or two cats we typically take $600. After a lease is signed and move in fees have been paid we will disperse the tenant’s security deposit for you to hold at your bank.

When a tenant signs their lease, we require a full month’s rent and a deposit equal to the rent to be paid. The tenants next month’s rent that is due will be prorated based on the days that they lived in the unit during their first month of tenancy. For example, if a tenant moves in on September 15th and their rent is $1000 they will pay $1000 for the first month rent and $1000 for their security deposit at lease signing. When rent is due on October 1st they will pay a prorated amount for the 16 days that they lived in the unit in September.

You will need to put the electricity account and the gas account, if applicable, into the new tenants name as of their move in date. The City does not allow the water, sewer and garbage bill to be put into the tenant’s names; therefore you will want to have that bill sent to you. You will need to forward the bill to the tenant for reimbursement/payment.

We take our leasing fee from the tenant’s move in funds when they sign their lease agreement.

After we sign a lease with the new tenants we will give you a copy of the lease agreement, tenant contact information, a final account statement and a check for the tenant’s security deposit funds. We will give key to the tenants on their move in date. From there forward you will be managing the property and tenants.