Tenant Screening
We work hard to find the right tenant for your investment
How We Screen Rental Applicants
We strive to get your investment rented quickly, but feel it is important to get the RIGHT tenant versus the FAST tenant! Spending time up front and finding the BEST tenant for your rental creates a good experience all around, versus one that is stressful and frustrating.
Oftentimes people think they just need to do a quick credit check and verify employment but there’s more to it than that. Our high quality tenant screening process digs deeper. We gather extensive information on the following:
- Credit Check
- Debt to income ratios
- Criminal history check
- Employment verification
- Eviction history check
- Previous landlord calls
Our screening process is not just based on a credit score only - we take a comprehensive look at the overall applicant. This process has proven to be extremely successful.
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As Your Salem Property Manager, We Take Care of Everything.
Our comprehensive property management services are designed for experienced investors as well as new landlords. We provide time-saving advantages, higher profits, and the chance to build financial independence by overseeing individual properties.
Marketing
Marketing is key to successful rentals. Centurion Real Estate Management provides an expert market analysis for each property we manage to maximize your return on investment.
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Screening
We conduct extensive screening on all tenants and handle everything from moving your qualified tenant into their new home, to rent collection, to handling maintenance issues.
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Rent Collection
We make sure you get paid on time, every time. You no longer have to worry about rent showing up in your bank account because we take care of everything so you have to worry about nothing.
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Maintenance
We conduct inspections upon move-in and move-out that include documentation of the property’s condition and ensure all maintenance issues are addressed in a timely manner.
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Financial Reporting
With our detailed financial reporting tools, it's never been easier to keep tabs on your investment. Log into your owner portal to keep up with how your investment is performing.
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Eviction Management
In the unfortunate event that a tenant needs to be evicted from your rental, we will cover the cost of a simple uncontested eviction (restrictions apply) and ensure your investment is protected.
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Perks of Property Management
Evaluation of the Property
We begin our management process by gathering information from the property owner followed by a thorough evaluation of the property. One or more qualified staff will evaluate the property, roofs, building structure, common areas, interior units, etc. Our team then works together in evaluating the historical income and expense data on the property along with comparing current leases and rental amounts to the going market rates. We will develop a plan for the short and long term based on your feedback to our evaluation. We understand that no two properties or owners are alike and each property and property owner have differing needs, desires and financial objectives.
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We Become The Point of Contact
Once we commence the management of a property, we immediately send out written notices to tenants informing them that Centurion Real Estate Management, LLC will be the new managing agent. We provide pertinent information to the tenants about our company and process, where to send rent payment and how to submit work orders. The Long Term Benefit of Professional Property Management
A professional property management company should make you money – not cost you money. We perform this difficult task in many ways. With our knowledge of the current rental market and trends, we can keep rents up and vacancies down. With periodic and thorough property inspections, we can spot problematic issues before they begin, minimizing long term loss in property value and costly major repairs. We are able to reduce costs and increase efficiency through our streamlined processes.
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On-site Management and Roving Managers
As is often the case, property management companies rely on resident managers to oversee day-to-day activities of the property. Centurion Real Estate Management, LLC takes this a step further by comprehensive hands-on training with each manager. We utilize an Employee Handbook, created from the ground up with input from numerous individuals with decades of experience in property management. We conduct periodic employee in-service trainings to hone skills and continually improve our processes. For smaller properties, we have roving managers who are directly responsible for property oversight and act as a contact person for the tenants.
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Vacancies
Our entire team works incredibly hard to prepare units to re-rent in record time. After a tenant vacates a unit, our goal is to have the unit rent ready within 5 days. Occasionally, it may take longer, and many times, it can be done in much less time. Upon the old tenant moving out; a thorough inspection of the unit is done. We utilize a custom “Turn Packet” that incorporates a checklist and logs work that needs to be accomplished which produces a record sheet for completed work for property owners. Turning of the unit (i.e. preparing the vacant unit to be ready to re-rent) includes: changing the locks or re-keying, any maintenance repairs needed, scheduling the carpets to be cleaned and general cleaning.
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Advertising
We begin advertising the vacant unit as soon as we have a tentative availability date. We then begin screening applicants and do everything possible to pre-rent the unit so that the time the unit is vacant is minimized.
We use numerous mediums of advertising such as yard signs, local free advertising sources, web advertising, newspaper and many more. Over the years we have compiled over a 1000 tips, tactics and strategies to advertise, market and rent units.
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Property Inspections
Frequent inspections are an important part of our property management services. Centurion does periodic drive-by inspections of the property. If there is a maintenance issues at your property, our staff are trained to keep an eye on problematic situations or issues of concern at the property. We also perform scheduled interior and exterior property evaluations to spot problems early and report our findings back to the property owners.