PEARL STREET - NOW AVAILABLE!

Welcome home!

Don’t pass up an opportunity to rent our highly sought after Haymount Homes Pearl Street Home! You can see full details on our Pearl Page. Lots to see and pictures galore!!

Easy living with lawn care included in the rent! This beautiful, fully remodeled and lovingly cared for home is located in the fabulous neighborhood of Haymount, in the highly sought after Terry Sanford School district. Fully remodeled with newly installed hardwood floors, fresh carpet upstairs, lovely paint, fully renovated kitchen from cabinets to appliances, this fresh and updated Haymount Charmer is neat as a pin. The kitchen boasts new appliances, stainless hardware, farmhouse custom subway tile backsplash, and dual windows. Enjoy a sunny breakfast in the adjoined dining room, or travel to the back patio through the lovely French doors. This darling home features three large bedrooms with an extra bonus room as well, a full bath with ceramic tile and stainless finishes. The home includes original vintage door handles, decorative fireplace to grace the front room, perfect for relaxing and entertaining. Fully remodeled bathroom, complete with ceramic tile, tub, and hand held spa fixture. Beautiful hardwood floors are featured throughout the first level of this home. There is an enclosed indoor washer and dryer area with storage as well. The fully fenced and landscaped back yard is ready for entertaining, complete with a back patio, walkway, and fire pit area. Mature Japanese Maples offer serenity and beauty to the area, and a place for your little ones or pets to play, while you relax from your rocking chair. Enjoy easy living with lawn care service included in your rent. You'll love the energy efficient new vinyl windows, skylights, brand new dual zone heating and air conditioning system ,and recent roof to keep your cool air in during the warm summer ahead. The attic space offers ample storage as well. Located in the heart of Haymount and voted the best neighborhood in Fayetteville. Only a few blocks from the wonderful General Lee Park, ice cream shops, schools, restaurants, theater and more, the convenient living and location of your new home cannot be beat. Just a 10 minute drive to Fort Bragg. With its classic charm, modern conveniences, top rated schools, and centrally located wonderful neighborhood, this charmer will be a wonderful place to call home. Won't last long so be sure to contact us as soon as possible for a showing. Lawncare service is included in the rent. Pet deposit required for approved pets; pets are by discretion. Application fee for credit check and background check.

PEARL STREET - NOW AVAILABLE!

Welcome home!

Don’t pass up an opportunity to rent our highly sought after Haymount Homes Pearl Street Home! You can see full details on our Pearl Page

Easy living with lawn care included in the rent! This beautiful, fully remodeled and lovingly cared for home is located in the fabulous neighborhood of Haymount, in the highly sought after Terry Sanford School district. Fully remodeled with newly installed hardwood floors, fresh carpet upstairs, lovely paint, fully renovated kitchen from cabinets to appliances, this fresh and updated Haymount Charmer is neat as a pin. The kitchen boasts new appliances, stainless hardware, farmhouse custom subway tile backsplash, and dual windows. Enjoy a sunny breakfast in the adjoined dining room, or travel to the back patio through the lovely French doors. This darling home features three large bedrooms with an extra bonus room as well, a full bath with ceramic tile and stainless finishes. The home includes original vintage door handles, decorative fireplace to grace the front room, perfect for relaxing and entertaining. Fully remodeled bathroom, complete with ceramic tile, tub, and hand held spa fixture. Beautiful hardwood floors are featured throughout the first level of this home. There is an enclosed indoor washer and dryer area with storage as well. The fully fenced and landscaped back yard is ready for entertaining, complete with a back patio, walkway, and fire pit area. Mature Japanese Maples offer serenity and beauty to the area, and a place for your little ones or pets to play, while you relax from your rocking chair. Enjoy easy living with lawn care service included in your rent. You'll love the energy efficient new vinyl windows, skylights, brand new dual zone heating and air conditioning system ,and recent roof to keep your cool air in during the warm summer ahead. The attic space offers ample storage as well. Located in the heart of Haymount and voted the best neighborhood in Fayetteville. Only a few blocks from the wonderful General Lee Park, ice cream shops, schools, restaurants, theater and more, the convenient living and location of your new home cannot be beat. Just a 10 minute drive to Fort Bragg. With its classic charm, modern conveniences, top rated schools, and centrally located wonderful neighborhood, this charmer will be a wonderful place to call home. Won't last long so be sure to contact us as soon as possible for a showing. Lawncare service is included in the rent. Pet deposit required for approved pets; pets are by discretion. Application fee for credit check and background check.

There is a potential for home to be rented furnished. Please contact us if you need this service and we can discuss this.

CELEBRATING FRIENDS

Good Morning Friends!

It has been quite a week at the Benander house with Carl’s change of command ceremony, celebrations, baseball tournament and first communion. We are blessed to have family visiting to joint in the festivities and we have enjoyed the time so much. It always amazes me the caliber of the families we engage with and the community we have.

On that note, we were also saddened this week to say goodbye to some of our long time friends, Sydney and Adam….and now Baby WILSON! When Sydney and Adam first contacted me to rent our home on Kelburn drive, they were dating and moving to Fort Bragg. I had the pleasure of speaking with Adam’s mom on the phone and she provided me with a great reference for Adam. That reference, however, came with a condition that I try to ensure he asked Sydney to marry him! Ha!

Fast forward life, now four years later, Sydney and Adam are married and have welcomed adorable little Wilson into their world. As they were moving out, I had the chance to hold Wilson and also finally meet Adam’s mother. It was an honor for me and it was fun to joke about the fact that she “owed” me for the engagement success and now her new grandchild :) We had a lot of fun.

Last night, Sydney posted this on facebook and it brought my heart joy:

Goodbye Fort Bragg, hello Fort Campbell. Fort Bragg will always be special to us. We got engaged to married to having our first son in this amazing home. Fayetteville, NC we can’t forget you or the 82nd Airborne! ❤️💙

Homes should be the place of security. The place you feel safe to live, grow, and develop as a person and a family. When we started Haymount Homes, we wanted people to love their surroundings and focus on loving their life. Adam and Sydney’s story has shown just that and we are grateful. Over the last few years, our homes have seen several proposals and engagements, so I know there is more fun in store!

Thank you again Baker family. Though we are sad to see you go, we look forward to your return. Remember, “All Roads Lead to Fayetteville.” God bless you, dear friends!!

- Casey

AVAILABLE SOON - GLENVILLE AVE!

We are excited to announce that our newly renovated Glenville Ave Home is going to be available March 30th. If you have been silently stalking our Haymount Homes collection, now is the time to act (you know who you are :) We are sad to see our current clients go, but the military has its ways of changing plans on all of us! We wish them nothing but the very best!

Glenville Ave is sure to be your new favorite spot. With renovations just completed, this darling home boasts subway tile, gas cooking, hardwood floors and more. You can see even more details here. New appliances, energy efficient windows and roof, and custom designs throughout. Love shiplap? Us too - you'll get plenty of it! Featuring two bedrooms, and a full bath, full back yard, attic storage, a workshop, and additional storage building. With lawn care included, off street parking and top rated Terry Sanford Schools, you will be easily situated in convience. A quick walk to Terry Sanford High School or Fayetteville Tech. Centrally located and only 10 minutes from post. Don't pass up this rare opportunity to enjoy classic charm with fully updated style!

“Coming home is one of the most beautiful things. ”

— Andre Rieu

- Casey

RENTAL HOME YARDCARE - INCLUDING LANDSCAPING IN THE RENT

Including yard care in the rent? You must be kidding?  Rental homes are already expensive enough!

Well, I am not kidding.   I do feel like I have a valid argument for why including yard care is an important service for your potential clients. 

We include routine yard care for all our homes.  This includes mowing, trimming, edging, blowing, and such.  Including yard care in the rent has several benefits for both the client and for the homeowner.

Primarily, by including yard care, you ensure your property's landscaping is well taken care of.  You ensure that the neighborhood says attractive and help your property values continue to rise.  You prevent drawing attention to the fact that the home is a rental property because it is continually manicured as if a homeowner was invested in the home.  All of these things help improve the neighborhood, deter crime, and hopefully will add to your property value over time.

Additionally, your clients are renting a home from you.  Clients that rent homes are more likely to be moving more frequently, have recently changed jobs, and are in a state of transition.  Many of them do not own yard equipment.  Often, potential clients will turn away from a single family home because they do not want the hassle of yard work.  You do not want to lose potential clients to an apartment or condo simply because they cannot or do not want to perform yard care.

Yard care is more reasonably priced than you might think.  We have several homes and our yard care professionals discount their work because we give them several homes to care for.  Additionally, depending on your climate and location, it might not be something that has to be done year round.  We service our southern NC homes twice a week from about March through October.  We usually include a leaf blowing, gutter cleaning, and hedge trimming in there as well.

Finally, if you have someone staying on top of your landscaping, you will avoid the negative connotations of having to bother your clients to keep up with the yard.  Negative interactions as a whole are bad for your relationship with your clients.  You will also ensure that there are minimal costly "whole yard" landscaping renovations once your client moves on.  This can often add up to more than the landscaping over the course of the season would have amounted too.  Even if it means an adjustment in your asking price, landscaping will be a huge benefit to the client and to you.

Clients love it when landscaping is included in the rent.  Often, they cannot believe it when I let them know.  I think it is important to think about what makes life a little nicer for your client.  Landscaping care not only improves their quality of life, but it will improve your stress and neighborhood appeal as well.

- Casey

SETTING A RENTAL RATE

650? 1000? 1500?

Utilities? Yard Care? Pet Rent?

Yikes! Where do you begin? 

Spinning from the last post about the 1% rule, we already know that the house needs to rent for approximately 1% of the total purchase price of the home.  So, using our last example, if the home was $100,000 to purchase, then the home needs to rent for $1000/month.

You have to understand your rental market to know if your home can command this price.  This is where you must become a student in your market.  You need to invest time researching your market.  There are plenty of rental sites to choose from.  One of my personal favorites, is zillow.com, but there are plenty of them to choose from.  Look around the area you are considering purchasing your home.  What are the going rates?

You'll quickly find that it is hard to compare.  Some homes will have the same number of bedrooms and bathrooms as yours, but yours might have additional rooms that offer more square footage.  Some homes have better or worse finishes than yours, such as granite verses laminate counters in the kitchen, or a master en suite bath verses a shared bathroom.  The list of comparisons can be daunting.

Comparing homes can be difficult, here are some fairly tried and true rules that I have learned that allow me to size up the market and the competition.

• Number of Bedrooms
• Number of Bathrooms
• Quality of the Kitchen and Bathrooms
• Overall Square Footage
• Yard
• Storage

Let me preface this by stating that we rent mostly historic homes.  These homes are in an area that particular streets are more desirable (less traffic) and yard size is often small (thus, more private, larger lots, matter).  Additionally, historic homes traditionally offer storage challenges, so when a historic home offers storage, this is a big advantage.

That stated, people overall care about having a nice space/street to live on, some place to store their holiday decorations, and enough space for their family.  They also care about the amount of bedrooms and bathrooms.  The price of the home is usually most dependent on the number of bedrooms, more than bathrooms, but no one will complain about having additional bathrooms!

People care about kitchens and bathrooms and the quality of the finishes.  Depending on your market, the level of quality can change.  However, across the board, attractive surfaces, cared for appliances, and nice flooring go a long way.

When you put this all together, you can start to compare homes on a more equal basis.  Perhaps you have a very nicely appointed two bedroom home that has 2 bathrooms, a fully remodeled and upgraded kitchen, and a private, fenced yard.  This might rent for the same price as a three bedroom, one bathroom house that has a standard grade kitchen and one less bathroom, on a busier street with a smaller yard.

It is not simply the size of the home that determines the rent, but as importantly, the quality of the home.  Some people will sacrifice more space for better finishes; others will want that extra bathroom. When pricing your home, consider the competition in your size range and determine if you were looking to rent, where would home fall amid the available competition on the market?  Would your home be as nice as the others? Nicer? Less nice?  If you were looking to rent, consider what price would make your home a "no brainer" or "I need to call quick before this house is gone?"  That is the price you want to consider.  Something that makes a potential client act so they don't lose out.

We'll cover more on this in the future, but hopefully this helps guide you in determining a rental price for your home. Once you know your market, you can better compare what your home has to offer a potential client, and you can more accurately determine the best price.

- Casey