Working With Coastal Properties, Inc. Property Management Division

What we do to lease your home?

• Develop a list of features and benefits of your home for use in advertising
• Advertise through the Board of Realtors computer
• Advertise through local newspapers (CASA, Santa Barbara News Press)
• Deliver a copy of all advertisements done on your property
• Update you with any changes in the market conditions in your area
• Suggest any advice for changes to your property to make it more marketable/attractive to tenants
• Tour your home with our staff
• Display photographs in our portfolio; prepare full page color layouts for our mailings as needed; list page on-line
• Handle all telephone calls
• Arrange and accompany showings of your home to prospective tenants
• Screen prospective tenants (credit, professional and personal background checks as warranted)
• Represent you to help negotiate the best possible price and terms
• Take reservations
• Collect security deposits and rents
• Collect transient tax fees and submit to the proper agency, as required
• Collect cleaning fees (allowed on rentals of less than 30 days only) and pay cleaner(s) accordingly
• Inspect property before tenant arrival
• Provide you with accounting statements
• Place your home on our Internet web page listings for vacation rentals
• DELIVER YOUR CHECK accompanied by a detailed statement. We can send it directly to you (or your accountant) or deposit it into you local bank account
• What we do to manage your home?
• Depending upon the contract, leasing your property may be part of our management. If so, the previous list would be included with the following:
• Arrange cleaning in between and/or for tenants
• Provide tenants with any special instructions about your home and local tourist brochures (Special instructions include information such as tar on the beach, stereo instructions, etc., as provided by you)
• Restock basic necessities between tenants (at your cost)
• Check-in and check-out all tenants
• Hold security deposits in a Department of Real Estate regulated trust account
• Advise on security deposit dispositions
• Disburse security deposits after tenant departure
• Arrange minor/emergency repairs and maintenance
• Maintain a reserve for such repairs and maintenance
• Occasionally inspect the property inside and out and suggest maintenance repairs

Many of our leasing and vacation clients are future buyers; moreover, many of our homeowners are future sellers. We are happy to assist you in all your sales needs.