The key to good property management is good tenants. Nesbitt Realty rarely has problems with tenants that we place.

Nesbitt Realty has experience with troublesome tenants because we've inherited problems from landlords who selected their own tenants, or from landlords who have brought us tenants from other property managers.

The key to finding a good tenant is starting with an understanding the criteria that describes the ideal tenant and proceeds to a method for determining knowing if an applicant approaches that ideal.

• Vetting Tenants— How we protect the landlord’s interests.

If your property needs a tenant, we immediately assign a Realtor to get the property listed. One of our agents will contact you to make arrangements to take photos. Unless the landlord has other instructions, within 48 hours we will have the property on 100's of websites including Realtor.com, Zillow, Trulia, Hotpads and our own website. We will push the property onto the desk of every Realtor in Northern Virginia using the MLS. The agents will carefully examine your home and make recommendations that could improve your homes rentability. The agent will also determine repairs that are required before we can help you. We can make suggestions for contractors if necessary. The agent will also do a comparative market analysis to help determine the retail rental value of your home. By comparing your property to similar homes that are currently available and comparing your home to homes that recently rented we can determine the probable market value of the rental. From there we will make a recommended list price for the rental.

• How we find tenants— More about our marketing process and our fees;

Many of our new accounts have tenants in place. If so, great we're happy to help settle your tenant into our system.

If you're curious about our process for transitioning a tenant to our property management system we're happy to explain what we do.