Jay TeamProperty Management
The journal

January 22, 2024

Showing a vacant unit that does not feel vacant

Applicants decide quickly. What we do to a house before anyone sees it.

A row of mailboxes on a brick garden-apartment building.

People decide in the first minutes, often from a phone. A listing that is dark, cluttered, or dishonest about the street will get the applicants you did not want, or none.

Light and order

We clean, we light, we photograph as if someone careful lived there. Vacant is not the same as neglected.

The copy

Neighborhood, type, what is true. We do not write a novel, and we do not hide the parking.

The showing

On time, unlocked, the HVAC on, a person who can answer a question. The house should not have to apologize for how it was left.