Property advertising is a time-consuming process, especially if you lack previous experience. As your new property manager in Lacey, we handle all your rental marketing needs. Our team will tackle any advertising work needed, from creating local listings and signage to advertising online. Our advertising will focus on the most prominent rental portals in Washington, including UtopiaManagement.com.

Our team will guarantee that listings are honest, engaging, and filled with key facts that potential renters need to know. Professional imagery is included, too, all of which shows the property in the best light. Everything we do is built around guaranteeing that rental properties make the right first impression. Once the applications begin to come in from keen renters, we screen applicants to find the best tenants within.

Residential properties make up the backbone of the rental real estate in Lacey. At Utopia, we can manage any residential properties you happen to own here. While over 60% of properties here are single-family households, many multi-family properties are appearing. In fact, close to 30% of property in the city is now made up of apartment complexes and buildings; the rest are mostly townhouses or mobile homes.

Whatever residential properties you own, our management expertise can come in handy. We will focus on finding the best renters in the area and helping them choose your property from the various competitors. Once we have high-quality tenants in place, we offer our 24/7 support system so all tenants feel looked after. We also make sure your properties stay modern enough to remain attractive to renters in the area. We manage everything to create the most precise and profitable rental process for owner-investors.

Thanks to places like the South Sound Center, commercial property has become very common in Lacey. If you own any commercial properties in Lacey, we can provide you with the focused management needed. We can commit the time needed to ensure that any issues faced by vendors are dealt with immediately.

We believe that rental properties in Lacey’s commercial sector can be very profitable. To achieve that profitability, the right foundations must be put in place. We do everything in our power to do that as soon as possible. We then support vendors 24/7 to ensure they are in the best position to create long-term profits. Commercial success and long-term rental returns can be easily obtained with Utopia!

Selecting a tenant sounds easy, but many complications can arise. In a place like Lacey, where so many renters are present, there is no need whatsoever to rush the occupant vetting process. In fact, as your property manager, we believe that choosing too quickly is not the path to low vacancy rates. Taking the time needed to look closely at each applicant is a much better way to avoid requiring eviction assistance.

We will ensure that a good tenant is found among the many potential renters who apply. We analyze everyone thoroughly, including a background check, credit check, and other key checks. Since we evict less than one percent of our chosen tenants, property owners using our property management service rarely need to use our Property Protection Program. Instead, we create long-term, happy tenancies!

The simplicity of property management is often overstated, especially in a competitive city like Lacey. Over the years, we have worked with many landlords who are having a hard time managing accounts. Record keeping is important, but it takes more than a cursory knowledge of spreadsheets to do this right. With Utopia, it is much easier to work towards financial management that creates accurate accounting.

Our team of accountants consists of licensed and accredited experts with years of bookkeeping experience. We manage the day-to-day record keeping, making sure that those year-end tax returns are accurate and easy to fill in. We also manage rent collection, with tenants paying their rental rate to us via our tenant portal. Rent income is then transferred to you securely so you get rapid payment on all due rents.

One of the most common curveballs that a property owner in Lacey can face is a maintenance request. When that late-night call arrives from a tenant who needs a floor fixed or a pipe replaced, it can be quite a surprise. Given the newness of properties in Lacey, many landlords assume that maintenance will not be an issue. Even the newest of properties can suffer from property damage, though.

That is why having our attentive in-house maintenance team ready to act is so useful. Landlords can call us when a problem emerges, while tenants can submit maintenance requests through our online portal. No damage will be accepted, and our maintenance team—or the experts we hire for you—will deliver a quality finish that improves property value. Let us secure your property and keep tenants happy while reducing downtime or vacancy rates as our maintenance team takes immediate action to find solutions.

Among our many other key services at Utopia is our lease control service. We manage lease writing, so we know that any properties under our management are protected legally. We will guarantee that any leases we write are above board with the laws of Lacey, Washington, and the federal government. At the same time, though, we provide lease control services which will ensure tenants agree to their stipulations.

We avoid technical language and needless jargon, instead spelling things out clearly. We want total clarity and understanding on the part of all parties involved, so we make clear-cut agreements. Once an agreement has been put in place, our team will carry out regular inspections to guarantee the agreement has been enforced. We can also include legally applicable clauses such as no-smoking or pet-free property requirements. Everything needed to create a harmonious experience is included.