Do you know the difference between contingency reserves and operating funds?
Operating funds are funds that our property management and real estate business uses to pay for our business. Operating funds are our money. But, escrow funds are different. Escrow funds are monies that Nesbitt Realty is holding on behalf of tenants, landlords, buyers and sellers. Escrow funds are not our money, but they are monies that we are trusted to safeguard. At any given time, Nesbitt Realty has hundreds of thousands of dollars in escrow accounts.
In Glenvale, the Commonwealth of Virginia requires that all real estate licensees manage escrow funds in a particular manner. Most importantly the Commonwealth requires that escrow funds are properly accounted for at all times. In additional all escrow funds must be kept separate from operating funds. The biggest portion of our escrow funds are tenant security deposits, but also hold deposits for buyers (and sometimes sellers) as we'll as contingency reserve funds for landlord clients.
Contingency reserve is a special type of escrow.
A contingency reserve account is money that is held in savings to pay for maintenance and other incidentals that occur during property management. Although the money is in our escrow account, the money belongs to the landlord. If the property management ends, that money is promptly returned to the landlord.
When a repair bill arises we use money in the contingency reserve account to pay that bill. When bills are paid in this manner the account is depleted. When the account is missing funds, at the end of the month when new rents are paid, Nesbitt Realty replenishes the count with money withheld from this rent. As property managers, Nesbitt Realty prepares a statement each month to show if/when money is depleted and how/when money is replenished into the contingency reserve account.
Landlords do not pay us money to set up the contingency reserve account. Instead, Nesbitt Realty withholds money from the first month of rent in order to set up the account.
Glenvale Property Management Resources
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Accounting
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Cost
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Vetting
How Nesbitt Realty vets renters for property owners.
Reserves
What is a contingency reserve account?
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Nesbitt Realty's Guide to Real Estate is a helpful resource for everyone who needs to find out more about Glenvale and nearby communities. The Guide to Real Estate has information regarding what has sold and what is currently listed, as well as many interesting facts that you might not be aware of. Not to mention, our Guide spotlights quite a few of the fundamentals of life in Glenvale. Of course, all of this is helpful for purchasers and sellers, but rental investors and renters will also find these tools to be very sobering.
Landlord Reference
a handy archive for landlords in Glenvale
- Before you rent out your property in Glenvale
- Collections and evictions
- Communications with the renter
- During tenancy
- End of tenancy and what happens when a renter breaks the lease
- How does the rental investor get paid?
- How your property management company handles the association and your community
- How your rental manager handles utilities
- How Nesbitt finds tenants
- Insurance matters for rental investors using our rental management
- How Nesbitt Realty & Management manage keys
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- The move-in inspection
- Property management information form
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- Starting our management of your property
- When property owners don't yet know their new address
- Vetting tenants in Glenvale