Home Leasing Services

Distinctive Rental Homes helps home owners in Minnetonka, Plymouth, Eden Prairie, Maple Grove, Edina, Southwest Minneapolis and surrounding areas, rent their homes to the most qualified families faster.

Our Distinctive Advantage: We leverage the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) to form a virtual team with 10,000+ metro area Realtors in order to tap into their vast networks. Other rental companies list homes on the MLS but they do not disclose that they offer little if any money to motivate those Realtors to help. Read about more advantages by clicking here.

We charge no up-front fee and no monthly fee. We receive the first month's rent on the day of occupancy.

Our Guarantee: If your tenant does not stay for the full term of the lease or one year, which ever is less, we will re-list your home for free.

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Our listing services include:

FREE market analysis: We will research your home's value and conduct a visual inspection. Click to see home rental trends.
Advertising your home on a dozens of search engines , the Multiple Listing Service, and create a professional Craigslist ads that will be updated two to three times a week.
Showing your home when you are at work, away on vacation, or attending a sporting event or concert. We work with numerous Fortune 500 clients. In the last two months, we have placed six executives from Cargill in homes.
With owner approval, we take make a home video tour that we provide interested tenants a private link to. This eliminates some of the hassle of vacating your house to accommodate a showing. It also comes in handy for families that are relocating and one of the spouses is still back home and wants to see the house.
E-mailing other agents that specialize in renting homes.
Conducting a comprehensive background check on prospective tenants that includes;history check, credit rating, job verification, and criminal records and walk you through the results.
Investigating whether people are good pet owners. Over 50% of families have pets and many of them would be great renters
Negotiating the terms of the contract that is designed to protect your interest in your property.
Assisting with the transfer of utilities.
Ensuring that you are in compliance with local ordinances.

Our property management services include:

Documenting the pre-occupancy condition of your home and conducting a post-occupancy evaluation to determine if the cost of any damages need to be deducted from the deposit.
Collecting monthly rental payments.
Responding to resident repair requests, assessing costs, and managing the service technicians.
Providing monthly income and expense statements.Providing a Certificate of Rent Paid to the resident at the end of the year.
Driving by periodically and conducting occasional inspections of the property over the duration of the lease.
Pay/receive payments online.

Pet Options: The #2 issue behind a tenant's credit is the damage a renter's pets could cause. Over 50% of the families (thus 50% of the renters) have pets. By excluding pets, it is going to take longer to rent your home and you may turn down someone who would have been a better tenant. The other unfortunate result is pet adoption agencies are being flooded at the same time as their funding is being reduced so tens of thousands of pets are being lost each year in Minnesota alone. There are effective ways to address your concerns that you can read about on our pet options page.

Distinctive Rental Homes will donate $25 to Animal Ark, Minnesota's largest no-kill pet adoption agency, for every home we rent.

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