Property Management

Orlando Holiday Villas

Licensed Property management for short term rental villas

“Looking after & protecting your investment”

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We live on the subdivision Indian Creek and are less than a 5 minutes drive away from your vacation villa in Orlando, Florida.

By concentrating in one particular area, we can pay more attention to you and your villa’s needs and be close at hand in the event of an out of hours’ call out.

The Next Step

Once Orlando Holiday Villas assumes responsibility for the management of your home we will:

Arrange for all locks to be re-keyed and ensure that your villa is secure

Reprogram any alarm code – you choose the number!

Inspect your smoke detectors, pool alarm & fire extinguisher to make sure that they conform with current legislation

Ensure that your State & County licenses are currently in date and that you have a current Sales tax & tourist tax number so that your villa meets Florida’s short term rental requirements. In addition, we will replace/update any necessary signs in your property i.e pool signs

Thoroughly inspect both the interior & exterior of the property, reporting back any shortcomings

Help you in arranging for your monthly bills to be paid direct to the provider (water, gas, electricity, cable & telephone) if you do not already do so

Orlando Holiday Villas commitment to you!

In essence we will provide the following:

Pool care & maintenance - Weekly check of pool chemicals, clean pool filter and inspect pump, heater, chlorinator and pool light are in full working order and that pool equipment is not damaged. Hose deck, furniture, enclosure, as required and vacuum & brush pool.

Lawn maintenance - Regular cutting (weekly in Summer months and fortnightly in Winter), edging & strimming of front & rear lawns, lawn treatment for pests carried out every 12 weeks (regardless of any brown patches being spotted) - preventative maintenance usually keeps away much larger bills. Re-mulching of flowerbeds, regular weeding & fertilisation

Interior pest control - 3 monthly spraying of interior skirting boards, kitchen units, door apertures, pool deck internal perimeter and garage.

Management & Administration - Contacting guests on their arrival, arranging any repairs/maintenance when needed, production and printing of welcome manual, inspection of household items after every guest has vacated the villa and reporting any damage immediately with digital photos, advertising/marketing of villa, being on call 24 hours/7 days a week. Turning down the hot water after guest departures and back up before guest arrivals and adjusting the a/c for economy & efficiency. You should notice a reduction in your bills! We can provide welcome packs and phone cards for you & your guest’s arrival.

Bill payments – We will arrange for villa owners to pay their own utility bills (water, gas, electric, cable, phone) direct to the providers so you keep control.

Villa owners may make use of the ‘Property Mangers’ credit card facility by asking the ‘Property Manager’ to process a Visa/Mastercard transaction on behalf of the villa owner’s booking(s). ‘Property Manger’ will process the credit card payment on behalf of the owner and the amount will be held and deducted from the monthly management charge, once the 3% credit card processing fee plus a $25 administration charge has been deducted. All payments will be in US$.

The Property Manager will charge the villa owner a 15% fee of the rental income collected (net of taxes) for bookings placed by the Property Manager and agreed by the villa owner. There is no charge for bookings placed by the villa owner.

State & County Taxes – It is the villa owners responsibility to notify us by the 1st of the month after the rental has occurred. We can complete and send your monthly sales tax returns to the necessary authorities if you wish at no charge.

Management Fees – Chargeable & payable the 10th day of the month . The invoice will be emailed to you. A late payment fee of $25 will be added to your next months bill if payments are not made timely.

Orlando Holiday Villas reserves the rights to request an ‘owner’s fund’ of $750 before or during the ‘contract’. – Villa owners may pay the monthly management fee by check or by debit/credit card. A 3% credit card processing fee will be added to the management fee. The 3% debit/credit card charge is what we are actually charged by Visa & Mastercard!

Interior Maintenance – Check fans, light bulbs, TV’s and DVD players are all in working order, change light bulbs where necessary, regular clean/replacement of a/c filter, monthly visual inspection that fire extinguisher is fully functional, all smoke detector and pool alarm batteries changed annually or sooner if needed. Visual inspection for damage after each rental.

Exterior Maintenance – Pool maintenance (see above). Lawn maintenance including pest control (see above) regular inspection of the irrigation system. Removal of garden predators and hornets nests. Pressure washing is available at an agreed price.

All of the above are included at $300 per month

Cleaning charges - per time $65 (3bed) $75 (4bed) $90 (5bed) $100 (6bed). Please add an additional $5 to the above rates if your garage has been converted to a games room.
As and when necessary, we will recommend replacing bed linen, towels & bed mattresses. At your request we will ‘spring clean’ your vacation villa and agree a price in advance.

Additional charges - to be agreed upon with villa owner in advance of work being carried out i.e replacing broken fixtures like door handles, draw runners, repairing pool screen tears & damage or we may recommend the re-painting of one or more of your rooms, the villa exterior or your pool deck.

Notice periods - we will not tie villa owners into a notice period, but will give you 1 months notice on our side should we believe it to be necessary.

“Looking after & protecting your investment”