Rent Ready

Preparing your property for move-in

Our full-service management program ensures your property is 100% rent-ready. This guarantees legal compliance with North Carolina habitability laws and helps attract and retain high-quality tenants who will treat your investment with respect.

We're proud of the homes we manage and are committed to providing safe, clean, and well-maintained properties to our residents across Charlotte, Matthews, Concord, Huntersville, and surrounding areas.

North Carolina Legal Compliance Required: In order to comply with North Carolina's Implied Warranty of Habitability (NC Gen Stat. § 42-42), North Carolina judicial law, and Priority Property Group management standards, the below rent-ready items must be completed before we will fully advertise or rent your property.

Making Your Property Rent Ready

Rent Ready Checklist

Exterior

  • Garage: Broom swept with no debris or personal property

  • Other: All window wells must have covers. No lawn equipment, tools, or personal property

  • Landscaping: Fresh, clean, mowed & trimmed

  • Paint: Fresh & clean, no peeling paint

Interior

  • Appliances / Mechanical: All appliances and mechanical components must be fully functioning and working as designed.

  • Carbon Monoxide: Wall mounted carbon monoxide detectors installed within 15 feet of each bedroom. No wall plug-in units. Can be combined with Smoke Detector.

  • Carpet: Professional cleaned. No stains, no odor.

  • Cleanliness: Hotel-room clean. Kitchen and bathroom appliances and fixtures should shine. The importance of cleanliness cannot be overstated.

  • Doors / Locks: All exterior doors must have working locks. All exterior doors must be rekeyed between tenancies. All interior doors should have doorstops installed.

  • Kitchen / Bathrooms: Fresh caulking and free of mildew

  • Lights: Each fixture must have working and matching light bulbs

  • Paint: Fresh & clean, no scuffs or mismatched touch-ups

  • Personal Property: No personal property left behind. This includes furniture, toiletries, shower curtains, pictures. No owner-lock off areas.

  • Smoke Detector: Smoke detectors on each floor and in each bedroom

  • Unfinished Basements: Broom swept with no debris or personal property

  • Windows: All windows must have working locks. No draperies. All second story bedrooms windows that open must have screens. All bedrooms must have blinds.

Ensuring your property is fully rent-ready will help to attract and retain high quality renters.

This list is not meant to address each and every make-ready item. Rather it is a minimum standard overview to ensure legal habitability standards are met as well as internal Grace Management property requirements.