Properties Management, & Homes for Rent

Web site. We have the most actively used residential property management web site in Arizona. We receive over 20,000 visits and 200,000 "hits" per month. It directs more prospective tenants to our rental homes than the Multiple Listing Service, The Rental Hot Sheet, and newspaper ads combined! It has detailed information on the properties, pictures, maps, virtual tours, school reports, and other community resource links. Realtors and prospective tenants heavily use it because the information is close to "real time" by daily updates.

Cooperative relationships are maintained with relocation companies, major company employers and real estate leasing specialists. Desert Wide Properties initiates weekly contact with several valley employers to update them on availability of rental properties.

Signage in the community. With hundreds of homes in management, rental signs are placed on properties 30 days before homes are vacant. People are directed to properties that meet their needs, so the person renting your home will probably come from a sign on another home.

Pointe Hiltons refer to us. We are the largest property managers of residential homes on the Pointe Hiltons. We work closely with the concierge to accommodate corporate transfers.

Community referrals from realtors. We have been in business for twenty years and many realtors know that we have the largest resource of rental properties in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Many realtors refer prospective tenants to us.

National database postings. In addition to our own web site, our rental homes are placed on national sites like Yahoo, Rental Advisors, Rent On Line, and others. This is labor intensive, but with 40% of the public using the web, it has helped us to capture the majority share of the prospective tenants using this resource.

Company ads. We spend over $30,000 a year for generic ads that are a free service to our owners. Specific ads are available to owners at their expense using our volume discount rate with local newspapers.

Walk-in traffic and phone inquires. We get 50 to 300 people a day contacting our offices looking for rental properties.

Intra and inter office referrals. We get prospective tenants directed to us from our other real estate offices throughout the community.

MLS is available to property owners at the lowest rate in the community. Instead of the usual 6% of gross rents, we only ask the owner to reimburse the 3% paid to the leasing agent.

Rental Hotsheet. A publication that is primarily directed to realtors and advises them of available rental properties listed by realtors. It costs about $40 per month and can only be used by licensed real estate agents.

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