Rental Property Turnover Maintenance Items

[Sean Boyle]

I'm looking for some feedback on the typical items that are done to a property during turnover to a new tenant.  I have a rental property in Charlotte, NC and I've had a property management company in place since the tenant moved in.  We are now at the point where the property needs to be cleaned up and made ready for the next tenant.  Here are my questions:

1. When do you normally start marketing the property to try and get new tenants placed?  My management company waited until the property was vacant and all necessary repairs are made.  I would have thought the marketing would take place before the tenants moved out to minimize the time the house is vacant.
2. Are there standard items that are typically done (besides a deep cleaning of the property) during a turnover?  I'm being told that I need to pay for a check up on HVAC, plumbing, and electrical systems?  
3. Do you pressure wash a house every time a tenant moves out?
4. Is touch up painting of the interior of the house something that I should have to pay for or should this come out of the security deposit?  The house was completely remodeled before the tenant moved in and the entire house was painted.  I don't have to perform touch up painting on my house every year and didn't expect to have to pay for this on a rental house.

Thanks for any feedback.  Maybe I'm being naive, but I don't see many of these items being necessary.

-Sean

[Mark Fries]

@Sean Boyle

Like most property management companies... yours sucks...

The only thing that is needed is a deep cleaning and a paint touch ups and both of those are your responsibility, plus any other obvious issues. You do not need any systems check for the plumbing, air conditioning or electrical.

Good property managers or landlords should always start marketing a week or 2 before the move out so they can get ahead of the game and cut down on the vacancy time.

The problem is you're never going to find a property management company that thinks the way you do and tries to stay ahead of the game