[Vermilion Villager]

Originally Posted by Heartnsoul

Can anyone recommend a good company to rent out our home long term?? Tk u

Make sure your neighbors have your contact information, so they can let you know when it all goes South with a bad renter....it happens way more than you think.

[dougjb]

One of the worst property management companies I have dealt with in the Villages is Down Home. They are very nice! But, they are totally non responsive to landlord phone calls or emails.

They wound up renting my property for less than I had agreed to.

They promised me repeatedly that they would send someone over to check the sprinkler system timer. They failed to do so for several months despite repeated emails and phone calls as to why my irrigation expenses were so high (the house was unoccupied at the time).

They failed to submit the one year property report to the Villages (it was a brand new house with a list of punch out items). This wound up costing me thousands of dollars.

This is a business that really should be not a business in the Villages. They fail at every step of the way. No return calls. No return emails. Non responsiveness to tenant inquiries. Non responsiveness to owner inquiries.

Oh...they are quite good at taking their commission out of the rent payments. That is the only thing they did right...for themselves.

Do business with Down Home at your own peril!

[trista.nerich@gmail.com]

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We’re looking to rent my father’s house, as he is coming to live with us. Since it’s our first time, I don’t think we can do Rent From A Villager.

I have an appointment with Hometown Property Management - we’ve met with them before- and it seems their pricing is pretty high- unsure if the house will rent for what they are asking.

I just did a Google Search on Down Home Properties, and see a lot of negative reviews- so we won’t go that route.

I’m currently talking with a rep from Gunn Property Services.

Has anyone used Gunn or Hometown?

[DoorMan]

We use Shalyn at Re/Max Premier Property Management and are very happy with them.
352-460-4633
shalyn@remaxpremier.net

[Bryans’s Bungalow]

We are debating about going with a company or save the money and doing it ourselves but not sure about how to go about it. Since I’m not down there who do I get to clean the house, who can I trust to fix things, who do I get to look in on things? These are just some of the questions I have. What kind of contract do you use? Please reply as soon as possible. Thank you

Originally Posted by MrChip72

Landlord here. Almost everyone that I've talked to that used a property management company here has had a negative experience. This is on top of the company taking 30-50% off the top of the rental income that you would keep 100% of otherwise. I highly recommend just managing it yourself. There's almost no reason not to. My northern home is over 1200 miles from here. You can do everything over the phone nowadays, and there's several homewatch companies in the Villages that can handle unexpected things.

Personally, we just have our home posted on "Rent From a Villager". Take some good pictures and do a decent writeup and that's all you need to get started.

[Bryans’s Bungalow]

Can anyone possibly send me what they use as a rental agreement? I’m specifically looking for language around the ID cards and our private community pool.