Owner FAQs

We are committed to providing our owners with personalized, professional and ethical service. Our extensive experience provides you with policies and procedures developed for the effective management of residential properties such as yours. Our staff is dedicated, knowledgeable, caring and mindful of your needs and objectives.

We are committed to provide the best management services available for your residential investment along Florida's Gulf Coast. We continually strive to be considered among the top managers in the country.

We use an industry specific software system that features owner and tenant portals. This provides the owner with real time information about their property and makes the payment process easy for tenants.

McHaggis II LLC opened for business in 2002 as Keller Williams Property Management.  In 2014 we changed our name to Home Rentals of Manatee. We are a Florida licensed Real Estate brokerage and have the appropriate E&O and liability insurance. The vendors we use complete an extensive vetting process that requires they include proof of insurance and a state business license and if required a county business license also. 

All rents are due on the first of the month and tenants are given a 4 day grace period. Florida laws dictate that proceeds must be sent to you after all funds have cleared the banking system. Therefore we process rents between the 15th and the 20th of the month on rents that are paid timely. If you receive funds by ACH you can expect to see these funds in your account approximately 48 business hours after processing. A detailed statement is posted to your portal the first week of the following month. If you require a paper check please note that it will delay receipt of your proceeds.

We are licensed REALTORS® and are not licensed inspectors. Therefore unable to perform “inspections”, we will do an annual property condition review. During this review we usually check the interior of the property and walk the exterior. We look for possible maintenance issues, tenant’s compliance with lease terms and obvious deficiencies. These reviews may be done at any time during the year but must be completed prior to our signing any annual lease renewal. You may request additional periodic condition reviews be done, for additional fees, upon written request. To protect the tenant’s right of “quiet enjoyment” we will not contract to do more than quarterly condition reports. We also do 2 “drive by” reviews of your property. If certain conditions are observed during a drive by review, an interior follow-up may be scheduled. 

Our policies and procedures have been established after many years of experience to limit and control risk for the landlord and the management company. Unfortunately, situations can arise that no one foresee: divorce, loss of job, serious illness, etc. We do guarantee that if the tenant vacates before the end of their lease HOME Rentals of Manatee will pro rate any new leasing fee. Any remaining time left on the lease from the vacating tenant will be credited against this leasing fee. This guarantee is provided to the landlord regardless if we are able to collect this fee from the vacating tenant.

Rents are due on the first of the month. We post 3 day demand notices after the 6th of the month and no later than the 11th of the month. Florida law requires that we not include Saturday, Sunday or holidays in our calculations. In the rare event that rents remain unpaid past the 15th to 20th of the month we will contact you for authorization to proceed to file an eviction. We then contract with our attorney to file the eviction. We have found this to be the most efficient and cost effective way to get possession of your property. 

You can move back into the property if there is no active lease and the tenant has surrendered the property. The tenant has the right to live in the property without interference until the end of the tenant’s lease. If you would like to move into your rental property contact us so we may advise you specifically when and how you can obtain possession and move back into your property. 

Although we are a Licensed Real Estate brokerage with the state of Florida we do not sell real estate. We specialize exclusively in property management. We have an affiliation with Keller Williams Realty of Manatee and we know the various sales agents and their areas of expertise. We would be happy to work with you to refer an agent that can effectively assist you with your sales needs.