(The resident market requires the following: Please remember they are your customer as well as ours: Think of your resident as a customer walking into a department store, rather than looking at them as just a resident)

If you are painting yourself or if you’re having your own Vendors paint please follow the following procedures to avoid re-painting again and again:

1. Use a quality paint Vista or Dunn Edwards.
   1. Complete in a bedroom means closet and closet doors as well as the walls.
   2. Complete in Bathrooms and Kitchens means Ceilings are to be done as well
2. Use a Water base semi-gloss paint  DO NOT USE FLAT PAINT
3. Make sure that the ceilings are cut in and roller marks are not left on the ceiling
4. If the room is a color other than white you will need to give it 2 coats otherwise it will bleed through.
5. Spot painting is not permissible unless you have an exact match and the paint that is on the wall is less than a year old. 99% of the time you need to paint the whole wall.
6. If you remove curtain rods you have to patch and texture the holes, just patching is NOT acceptable. You can buy texture in a can at Home Depot for $10.00.

Lawns/Sprinklers and Landscaping:

1. Auto sprinklers are essential if you want to attract a good quality resident. Once the house is vacant there is no one there to water the lawn each day. Think of the front the lawn as a cover to a book or the front of your business card or place of business itself. If it looks awful why would you want to read the book or worse yet do business with that person? (Answer is you wouldn’t and that means more vacancies for you and double mortgage payments) That’s what residents in surveys have told us about properties with horrible lawns. If you can’t afford that right now then get a neighbor for $50 a month to water it until the house is rented. However put it in your goals to have an auto system with timers in place before the next resident vacates.

2. Do the lawns first especially before you work on the inside of the property.

(Seed and fertilize or in the winter you can use winter rye and in 10 days you have a great lawn or in summer use Grassology)

1. If you have trash to haul away, trimming of hedges or weeding of flower beds that to needs to be done first.

Cleaning:

Residents put more weight on cleaning if they will rent your property or not than anything else and it’s the least owners spend money on. You cannot skimp on cleaning and just because you use a professional cleaning service does not mean it will be professional. We rent your property on the basis that it will be certain standards of cleanliness before you even get the work done. Therefore, in order to rent your property faster we have to know when it’s all said and done that you have given us the property in the condition we sold the resident on renting your property on. If it’s less than that they will back out at the last minute and you don’t want that. See the attached sheet (cleaning checklist) and if you have a person cleaning for you go over it in detail with them and make it them check each item off and then you need re check it before you pay them.

Misc:

Up and above what is on the Job Estimate we sent you if you find other misc. repairs that are needed such switch plates, door stops, light bulbs, etc. do them at this time?