About

We assist you in handing over the time-consuming, stressful responsibilities that come with being a landlord, all while giving you the confidence that your property is in the right hands.

We specialize in the Orlando, Kissimmee, Winter Haven, Tampa, Lakeland, Mt. Dora, Altamonte Springs, Oviedo, Lake Mary, Deltona, and many more areas. We know what it takes to get and keep a home rented. We manage several hundred properties throughout Florida, from single-family homes to multifamily units.

Marketing Makes The Difference

Every day that your investment property sits vacant costs money, and rental properties don’t rent themselves. Within a month or two, you could be in a negative monetary position if you don’t get it rented quickly.

Florida Home Sales & Management LLC will pre-qualify your tenants. Some property management companies don’t actively market your property. Florida Home Sales & Management LLC actively markets your property in ways you may not be familiar with. It’s not enough these days to simply place a sign in a yard and wait for someone who is qualified to rent your home. The last thing you want to do is get an unqualified tenant! This could cost you thousands of dollars. WE ARE NOT BODY PLACERS! In other words, we don’t just put someone in a home to receive a commission check. We want our tenants to renew their lease. Most companies do not. This is where they make the biggest commission. We also have a 98% renewal rate that we are very proud to maintain.

I have also cc’d my assistant. She is in the office most of the time and keeps an eye on the emails so that we can respond quickly. She is our early morning team member who covers those early hours, while I am the late-night person. This means that you can reach one of us just about 24 hours a day. We also have a program in place that allows you 24/7 access to your accounting. You see what we see when we see it.

Our program is as follows.

1. We help Brokers that we work with locate the perfect investment home, providing them comps on what the projected rent would be.
2. We try to attend the inspections with the Broker when the home inspected.
3. We will send out contractors to get bids on what it would cost to get the home ready for rental.
4. We oversee the rehab once you have chosen the contractor’s bid, from start to finish.
5. In the interim we are locating a new tenant for the home.
6. Most of the time we have a tenant ready to go once we have completed the project.
7. We vet the tenants, which includes but is not limited to criminal background checks, credit checks, eviction searches (nationwide, not just statewide), current and previous landlord verification, and employment verification.
8. Once we have an approved tenant, we will write the one-year lease. The state of Florida only allows us to write a one-year lease. You can request a longer lease, but our attorney would have to write that lease. This is a state law. We don’t recommend more than a one-year lease due to market increases.
9. We handle the move-in and move-out, which is photo-documented.
10. You, as an owner, are given an online portal that is live. So you can see what we see (when a tenant requests a repair, pays the rent, etc.).
11. We have a very high renewal rate, we are not body placers!
12. We have a very simple fee structure with no hidden costs. We recently took over a property from another company and were appalled at the crazy fees that they were charging the owner: $10 a month for accounting, $10 for every month that power was turned on during rehab, placement, etc. (They called this a utility management fee), $100 for quarterly inspections after the tenant moves in. I find this offensive and not what the management fee is for.
13. We base our percentage on what is collected for rent, not what is charged. Be very careful with this; some companies base their fees on what is charged, so if a tenant is not paying, you still have to pay the management fee.
14. We do ACH deposits directly into your bank account. We say that we pay on the 15th of the month. But we have an AWESOME bookkeeper who sends out the funds once they have cleared, usually on the 10th of the month.
15. Tenants are given online portals to request repairs and pay rent. This is also something that you, as an owner, are able to see.
16. We advertise the property on over 65 different websites.
17. We provide you with comps and suggestions on where your renewal price should be.
18. We conduct quarterly or bi-annual inspections of the property while tenanted, providing you with photos for the inspections, so you can see what we see.
19. We keep the contractors busy with rehab and repairs, so they give us the best pricing for all repairs. The contractors we have worked with over the years understand that this is investment property. They also understand that they are accountable to us. They really do work to keep the cost down for us.
20. We have a very extensive lease that protects you as the owner.
21. We have an attorney on retainer who keeps us constantly updated on the laws.

During the rental period, our goal is to pay off the home or recoup your investment and also provide positive cash flow during ownership. So that when you go to sell, it is pure profit and you will be able to invest again and start the entire process over. One of the things we tell our owners is that we handle all the headaches and they just collect the money every month.

I hope this explains the process, and if you still have questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us.

• 2431 Aloma Ave. Ste. 320 Winter Park, FL 32792
• https://flahomes.net/
• 407.247.8559
• marilyn(at)flahomes(dotted)net