The Experienced Property Manager Gets The Worm

Rob Carrillo • Mar 05, 2020

What A Proactive Property Manager Does For An Owner

Experience Matters
Meet with a new owner that wants to list their home for rent and they mention "but my home wont be vacant until 5 months down the road." What do you think most Property Managers will say? I bet one of two things. "Well, come back when you're about 6 weeks away from vacancy" or "Sign the Property Management agreement now, but we wont start marketing until you are about 6 weeks away from your vacancy". Why? The easy answer is laziness, but the overwhelming reason would be that quite simply most El Paso Property Managers just don't understand the El Paso rental market.  Century 21 Haggerty Property Management prides ourselves on our understanding as well as our experience with the El Paso rental market. Where some Property Managers might see a house that will sit on the market for months, we see an opportunity. What opportunity? We know that there are military families located at other duty stations throughout the U.S. as well as soldiers deployed that are getting their orders to PCS to El Paso 5 months down the road. What happens once they get those orders? They jump online to find out where they are going to be living in 5 months down the road. If they can lock something down early, well then, that's a big headache that they just got out of the way that they won't have to be dealing with when they make their move. Century 21 Haggerty Property Management knows this because 1) We are a Veteran owned company and 2) We've positioned ourself to be the most experienced Property Management company in El Paso and Las Cruces. 

The Example
We just recently had a Ft. Bliss soldier visit us and inform us that he received his orders to PCS in 5 months(true story, pic of the house above). He wanted to meet now to find out what he needed to do to get his house rented. One of the things we tell him is that we need to get his house on the market ASAP to take advantage of the PCS waive that will be hitting in El Paso during the summer. He was surprised that we would want to list it so early. We tell him not only do we want to list it early, but we want to list it at a higher rental rate than the market is showing. His question, "Why". Our answer, "You have 5 months on market to work with, so why not try to get top dollar." So luckily he trusts us and what happens? The home is only on the market for 1 week...yup...1 WEEK! So now we have an owner that has just removed his own big headache of trying to find a renter PLUS he is getting his house rented at a higher price than the market is dictating!

Our Mindset
This is what happens when you work with an experienced Property Management company like Century 21 Haggerty. We think proactively and we think three dimensionally to position your home to get rented as quickly as possible and at the best rate as possible. Not to mention we run an extensive background check on potential tenants to ensure you are getting a quality tenant. We embrace innovation and technology within our field to make sure that we evolve ahead of the curve and don't get left behind.

Contact us. Let us go over with you some of the exciting services we offer and the experience we bring to the table.

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