Advertising is never an easy process, especially in a city like Bell, which has so many rental opportunities. To get our clients spotted first, we create engaging online advertisements on America’s most popular rental portals. This ensures people looking to rent in Bell can find our client’s properties with ease. This includes high-quality, professional imagery used to help showcase the property in the best light. Additionally, we include stylish listings that help to sell the story of the property and encourage people to make a bid.

At Utopia, we also ensure that all of our clients benefit from our communication skills. We will contact and discuss all applicants, making sure they are the best fit for the property. Our staff will arrange screenings of each tenant and viewings to ensure that the property is given the greatest attention and focus. This results in greater levels of interest, including from our excellent referral list.

Property management is a combination of various skills which are essential to our client’s success. This includes everything from finding the right tenant and communicating with them to handling all property maintenance and accounting. With 24/7 support available, our clients and their tenants can easily contact us should anything come up that they need help with. That extra level of focus and attention helps us to ensure that tenants, no matter who they are, feel like they are our main priority.

Properties managed by us will be cared for in every way that our service allows. This includes making sure the right tenant is put in place and that the accounts for the entire portfolio are correct. Bell properties were typically built between the pre-war era and the 1990s, so most need regular attention and maintenance. Our management team ensures that this attention is provided ASAP.

Tenants are not easy to select. The right person, though, can make all the difference to the success of a property portfolio. With the right tenant, properties continue to be kept in fine condition, thanks to tenants’ reputations for respecting property. With the wrong tenant, though, expensive eviction problems can begin as clients fight to get their property free from malcontent presences. Our job is to find the best tenants by undergoing a thorough and detailed screening process that catches any problems.

We use a detailed screening solution that looks to capture every detail about the individual that we can find. All references are reviewed in full, including details about their finances, professional status, and criminal history. We also review their rental history and ensure they are 100% compatible. This extra focus is why less than 1% of our tenant selections need to be evicted. Worried about a rare eviction? Take out our additional Protection Program and feel safe knowing we will handle the whole eviction.

Staying on top of the various money flowing in and out of a property portfolio is by no means an easy process. It takes time and effort, but also a lot of planning. Accountancy skills are useful, too, especially when it comes to year-end figures and taxes. At Utopia, though, we make sure that our clients do not have to engage in this. Instead, they receive a monthly and annual statement that breaks everything down. With in-house accountants as part of our team, we handle the financial analysis for our clients.

Not only does this free up valuable hours of accounting time for our clients, but it also guarantees accuracy in figures. We also arrange all financial collections, including all rent payments and security deposits. Paid online and securely to us, we then forward the funds as soon as they arrive. Should a tenant fail to pay on time, our team will be the ones to find out why and work together with the tenant to find a solution. This alleviates cash flow problems for our clients while ensuring finances remain stable and strong long-term.

Without the right approach to property maintenance, landlordism can become a real headache. Being called in the early hours of the morning due to a sprung leak is a problem; finding emergency repair maintenance is even harder. At Utopia, we both have in-house maintenance staff and specialists in the Bell area we can contact. This keeps maintenance costs down while ensuring work is carried out ASAP.

This results in tenants who feel suitably cared for and respected while ensuring problems are corrected by professionals. As a general contractor, we can handle the hiring and the invoicing, too. This is then broken down into your monthly statement so you can see exactly what the costs and profits are. Properties are then maintained both through scheduled maintenance inspections and on-demand requests from tenants. Properties, then, stay in rentable condition, and tenants feel well looked after.

A lease agreement is an essential document for any landlord to feel safe in their position. Without a strong and well-worded legal agreement, landlords risk being abused by their tenants. Making sure that a legal agreement covers every aspect of California property law matters, too. With a legally minded department in our writing team, though, we make sure every agreement we write fits in.

This ensures that tenants are given every detail they need to know what is and is not allowed. At the same time, they are given clear instructions about the penalties and situations that will occur should they fail to stick to the agreement. Our agreements limit liability and legal risk for our clients but also ensure that tenants are never unclear about the agreement they have signed and what is and is not permitted.