Management Services
Best Real Estate Management is Whatcom County's source for quality property and association management. We provide management and rental services for single-family homes, multi-family housing complexes and manufactured housing estates, condominium and homeowners associations in Bellingham and Whatcom County, Washington. Our staff members are highly trained individuals who keep up to date on legal requirements for the industry. At Best Real Estate Management, we take pride in providing personalized and professional service that meets the needs of individual clients
Residential and Commercial Property Management
As your full-service property manager, we strive to enhance the value of your investment property, to maximize your profits, and to eliminate the day to day hassles of rental property management.
For property owners who prefer a more hands-on approach, we offer a one time rent-up service that includes advertising, applicant screening and tenant placement. After initial rent and deposit monies are collected and tenants take occupancy, we disburse funds and provide all tenant documentation to the property owner, who then takes over all the regular duties of management.
If you feel you would benefit from professional property management, please contact us today. We will customize a property management program that's perfect for you. Our services include:
Applicant Screening/Tenant Placement
- Thorough screening that includes credit, reference and criminal background checks
- Marketing/Advertising
- Online and in-house advertising of available rental properties
Bookkeeping/Accounting
- Collecting rents, deposits and other fees
- Paying bills
- Disbursing owner income
- Preparing monthly financial statements with copies of all invoices paid
- Preparing year-end financial statements
Maintenance and Inspections
- Receiving and reviewing requests for maintenance
- Hiring licensed and bonded professionals to perform repair work
- Performing periodic on-site and walk-through inspections
- Available 24 hours, 7 days a week for emergencies
Notices to Tenants
- Serving late notices
- Sending other correspondence (notice of scheduled maintenance, complaints, etc)
Turnover Procedures
- Advertising upcoming vacancies
- Inspecting vacated property
- Coordinating necessary cleaning and repair work
- Disbursing security deposit funds
Association Management
We provide a premier level of management services for community associations in Bellingham and other parts of Whatcom County. Our staff has over 18 years experience managing all types of community associations — residential condominium and homeowners associations, commercial and professional associations, and associations with combined residential and commercial property. Additionally we have expertise in the formation of new associations.
How we can serve your association
- Respond to all communications within 24 hours
- Monthly on site inspections
- Prepare operating and reserve budgets, and long term reserve schedules for deferred maintenance
- Review all payables
- Prepare monthly financial statements
- Collect fees and assessments from members
- Compose and prepare association correspondence
- Attend board meetings and prepare meeting agendas Prepare and conduct annual general membership meetings, prepare minutes Assist with board transitions
- Prepare and review contracts as needed, including landscape maintenance and janitorial
- Coordinate maintenance and renovation projects
- New association formation and start up
- transfer ownership from declarant
- banking relationships corporate
- registration
- accounting, bookkeeping, record keeping, tax filings
If your community association would benefit from professional management services, please contact us today. Best Real Estate Management has the experience and expertise to meet your needs. If you're in a self managed association looking to relieve board members from endless administrative duties, if your association needs a change in management, if you're planning a new community development — you can expect the very best service from us.