Do you know the difference between contingency reserves and operating funds?
Operating funds are funds that our real estate brokerage uses to pay for our business. Operating funds are our money. Conversely, 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 Bryce Mountain Resort, 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 repairs and other incidentals that occur during property management. Although the money is in our escrow account, the money belongs to the real estate investor. When the property management ends, that money is promptly returned to the property owner.
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.
Owners 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.
Bryce Mountain Resort Rental Management Resources
Basics
Elementary info regarding rental managment in Bryce Mountain Resort.
Getting Started
Learn more about getting started with property management
Find A Tenant
List your property to rent to find a dependable renter in Bryce Mountain Resort fast.
Accounting
How does Nesbitt Realty keep track of income and expenses for landlords?
Cost
A list of fees associated with rental management services in Bryce Mountain Resort
Vetting
How Nesbitt Realty vets renters for landlords.
Reserves
What is a contingency reserve account?
Territory
Where does Nesbitt Realty manage rental property?
Clients
Who uses Nesbitt Realty management services?
Do you need understand more about our local real estate market?
Nesbitt Realty's Guide to Real Estate is a handy tool for anyone who wants to find out more about Bryce Mountain Resort and surrounding communities. The Guide to Real Estate compiles data about what has sold and what is on the market, and some interesting facts that you might not know. Furthermore, our Guide highlights many of the fundamentals of life in Bryce Mountain Resort. As a matter of course, all of this is interesting for purchasers and sellers, but rental investors and tenants will probably also find this information to be very enlightening.
Landlord Reference
a free archive for property owners in Bryce Mountain Resort
- Before you lease out your investment in Bryce Mountain Resort
- Collections and evictions
- Communications with the renter
- During tenancy
- End of tenancy and what happens when a tenant breaks the lease
- How does the owner get paid?
- How your property management company handles the association and your community
- How your property manager handles utilities
- How Nesbitt finds tenants
- Insurance matters for landlords using our property management
- How Nesbitt Realty & Management manage keys
- Bryce Mountain Resort rental investor responsibilities
- Maintenance, repairs & inspections for your rental investment in Bryce Mountain Resort
- The move-in inspection
- Property management information form
- Selling a 1031 tax exchange & more
- Starting our management of your rental
- When landlords don't yet know their new address
- Vetting renters in Bryce Mountain Resort