Making Your Property Rent Ready

Our full-service management program will ensure your property is 100% rent-ready. This will ensure legal compliance and also help to attract and retain high quality tenants.

We are proud of the homes we manage and are committed to providing safe, clean, and well maintained homes to our residents.

In order to comply with the Colorado Warranty of Habitability (Colorado Revised Statutes 38-12-503), Colorado judicial law, and our internal Grace Management standards, the below rent-ready items must be completed before we will fully advertise or rent a property.

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Rent-Ready Requirements

Exterior

Landscaping: Fresh, clean, mowed & trimmed
Paint: Fresh & clean, no peeling paint
Garage: Broom swept with no debris or personal property
Other: All window wells must have covers. No lawn equipment, tools, or personal property

Interior

Appliances / Mechanical: All appliances and mechanical components must be fully functioning and working as designed.
Carbon Monoxide: Wall mounted carbon monoxide detectors installed within 15 feet of each bedroom. No wall plug-in units.
Carpet: Professional cleaned. No stains, no odor
Cleanliness: Hotel-room clean. Kitchen and bathroom appliances and fixtures should shine. The importance of cleanliness cannot be overstated.
Doors / Locks: All exterior doors must have working locks. All exterior doors must be rekeyed between tenancies. All interior doors should have doorstops installed.
Kitchen / Bathrooms: Fresh caulking and free of mildew
Lights: Each fixture must have working and matching light bulbs
Paint: Fresh & clean, no scuffs or mismatched touch-ups
Personal Property: No personal property left behind. This includes furniture, toiletries, shower curtains, pictures. No owner-lock off areas.
Smoke Detector: Smoke detectors on each floor and in each bedroom
Unfinished Basements: Broom swept with no debris or personal property
Windows: All windows must have working locks. No draperies. All second story bedrooms windows that open must have screens. All bedrooms must have blinds.

Safety

Resident safety is essential. All exterior doors and windows must have functioning locks. The property must be re-keyed between tenants.

Pricing:

Given the current supply and demand dynamics of the Denver rental market, properties should be appropriately aggressive in pricing and may include move-in incentives.

Ensuring your property is fully rent-ready will help to attract and retain high quality renters.

This list is not meant to address each and every make-ready item. Rather it is a minimum standard overview to ensure legal habitability standards are met as well as internal Grace Management property requirements.

What We Do as Your Denver Property Manager

Getting Your Property Rent Ready

When a resident moves out, we complete the security deposit disposition process. We then oversee the make-ready process on your behalf to ensure your property meets the detailed Colorado habitability standards, attracts high quality residents, and rents quickly.
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Legal Compliance

Colorado highly regulates all aspects of renting a home. From advertising, to applicant screening and lease language, required repair timelines and security deposit return requirements; we ensure full legal compliance to minimize the risk of owning rental real estate in Colorado.
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Marketing

Effective marketing is a key to attract high quality applicants. We prepare a custom market analysis for each property we manage to determine the optimal rent to maximize the financial return on your investment.
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Tenant Screening

Our time tested applicant screening process combines personalized processing and advanced data search technology to keep the bad tenants out and attract long term, high quality residents. We have screened over 20,000 applications.
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Lease Execution & Renewals

Our lease package is created by TSM, a top Colorado landlord law firm and includes multiple lease addendums for maximum legal protection.
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Rent Collection

We believe that if you do not get paid - then we should not get paid either. We work to ensure you get paid on time, and our rental collection rate averages 99%.
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Maintenance

Our 24/7 Repair Center is always open to protect your property around the clock. We have low, normal, and urgent protocols to ensure cost control and pre-screen all of our vendors.
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Financial

With our detailed financial reporting tools and secure online owner portal, you will have 24/7 online access to your financial information.
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Eviction & Pet Protection

If a legal eviction becomes necessary we will pay YOUR legal fees - yes you read that right – we will pay. AND... if a pet does damage to your property, WE will pay for that too.
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