Need detail on how to rent out property?
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 at
3:23 am
My husband and i Live in TN right now, but plan to move back to NJ after the birth of our second daughter in March. We just bought a house here not knowing wed be leaving so soon. We have lived in our home since April. Currently the house is up for sale, but we are interested in understanding making it a rental property in case it takes to long to sell it?!?!
How would we go about pricing it?
How do we manage it from so far away?
How much profit could we expect to make if any?
Any and all details about having a rental property and how it works would be greatly appreciated. Our mortgage is approx. 832.00 a month which includes our homeowners insurance.
Real Estate Professionals
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Contact a local real estate office that offers property management. They can advise you on the anticipated rent and will take care of the property. Finding a tenant, collecting rent, property maintenance, etc. You will need to notify your insurance agent too. However, before you do anything read your mortgage. If you bought the home as your primary residence, then there will be clause in the lease that says the property will be “owner occupied” and/or “used as our primary residence.” If you decide to rent the property and your mortgagee (lender) finds out, they have the option of calling the loan due.
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You need someone nearby to keep an eye on it. Property managers may sound great, but they really don’t do much beside collect your rent check. You need a friend who will check and maybe do a walk through every so often. Don’t allow pets – not even one old family friend – once you allow one, you can not limit the number (one apartment was being used to breed birds – that chewed the door frames and pooped everywhere). Arraigned for a service to mow the lawn – people who think they just couldn’t live in an apartment seem to have no clue how to take care of the yard. REALLY check their references – talk to the past landlord – chances are she/he just wants to get rid of lousy tenants and may give good reviews to speed the process. Look at their last residence – if it is a dump, yours will look the same. Trying to sell a home while it is rented is difficult – you would stage the home to make it more sale-able, but a renter doesn’t want to lose his home. As for pricing – the going rate, find it by looking for comparable rentals in the local paper. And good luck.
Contact a property management company in your area and talk with them. They have experience with what properties are renting for in a given area and can help you price yours. Some charge an up-front fee of maybe a couple hundred dollars to market the property and screen the applicants. They then charge a percentage of the rent each month. Some places require you to keep them as the management for the entire first term of a lease (usually 1 year), while others allow you to drop the management company after 90 days or 6 months.
I rent out a condo through a property management company that did not charge me to market the property or screen applicants. Within a month (enough time for us to fix up the place), we had a renter ready to move in. The management company charges us 8% of the rent in management fees and we’re obligated to use them for the first term of the lease (1 year). After that, if we decide not to continue using the management company, we can renew the lease with the tenant, drop the management company, and get the full rent payment every month.
By having a management company take care of the property for you, this also frees you up from having to do maintenance and repairs on the property (which may be difficult or impossible from New Jersey). They usually have pretty inexpensive handymen working for them to take care of minor repairs. And, they usually know people who can do just about any kind of work at a reasonable price. They then just deduct the cost of the maintenance or repair from the monthly rent payment.
You also get full accounting of your rental property’s income and expenses in the form of an annual statement. This lists all your income from the property for filling out your Schedule E in your taxes, as well as expenses that you incurred to deduct from your gross income. And, the property management fees are deductible.
Also note that some management companies are independently operated, and most major real estate companies also do property management. And, you must be a licensed realtor to operate a property management company. So, make sure it’s not just someone doing property management on the side without a license.