Maryland Property Management —
Tenant Placement and Ongoing Support

Basic $139/mo, Preferred $179/mo and Concierge $349/mo with annual billing. Monthly billing is $149, $199 and $369/mo respectively. Tenant Placement + Management has a $350 listing and activation fee, a placement fee of one month's rent when a tenant is placed, and the selected management fee. Tenant Placement Only has a $500 listing launch fee plus one month's rent at lease execution, with no ongoing management. Management Only starts with a $500 activation fee and offers Preferred or Concierge; Basic is not available for that service. Every home after your first has no activation fee: sign up your next home with the same email or phone and it comes off automatically, no code needed. Repairs carry a 10% maintenance coordination fee in addition to the vendor invoice. Renewals, inspections and other charges depend on the plan. Compare the service options and fee schedule.

Choose Management Only if you want us to manage an existing tenancy. Preferred and Concierge are available. If your home needs a tenant and ongoing management, choose Tenant Placement + Management. If you intend to manage it yourself after leasing, choose Tenant Placement Only; our role ends at lease execution and payment of the placement fee, and you handle move-in.

Yes. Every home after your first has no activation fee: sign up your next home with the same email or phone and it comes off automatically, no code needed. Already an owner with us? Your next home is already $0 to activate. The monthly management fee stays the same flat rate per home.

With Tenant Placement + Management, if no completed application is generated within 21 days of the home being rent-ready and listed, we waive the first two months of management fees. This is an application milestone, not a guaranteed lease-signing or move-in date. Owner restrictions, pricing outside our recommended range, access or readiness delays, and events beyond our control are excluded. It does not apply to Tenant Placement Only or Management Only.

Tenant assurance applies to tenants we place through a Preferred or Concierge Tenant Placement + Management bundle: 9 months on Preferred and 12 months on Concierge. For a qualifying lease breach or eviction during that window, we find a replacement without another placement fee, subject to the agreement. Owner-caused departures, agreed early exits, military SCRA terminations, owner sale or occupancy decisions, and events after the management agreement ends are excluded. Third-party costs such as photography may still apply. Basic, Tenant Placement Only and Management Only do not include tenant assurance.

For tenants we placed, annual Preferred and Concierge Tenant Placement + Management bundles include our eviction coordination fee. Basic and monthly bundles have a $750 coordination fee; management-only plans require a separate $750 engagement. Tenant placement only does not include ongoing eviction coordination. Filing fees, court costs, sheriff or constable fees, and vendor invoices are paid by the owner. If court representation is needed, the owner retains and pays an attorney directly. We provide coordination and paperwork support, not legal representation.

The Perfect 10ant System™ is our 10-point tenant screening process: identity, income, employment, credit, rental history, previous landlord references, criminal background, sex offender registry, bankruptcy and foreclosure history. Screening supports a placement decision; it does not guarantee future rent payments or eliminate every risk.

Monthly and annual options are available. Annual pricing carries a term commitment, and early termination can require payment of the remaining management fees. Notice, renewal, refund and termination rules depend on the service agreement you select. Review those terms in the quote builder before signing; the monthly rate alone is not the full agreement.

Yes. Every lease we draft complies with the Maryland Real Property Code, Title 8 — the canonical MD landlord-tenant statute. That includes the 45-day security-deposit return rule with itemized deductions and accrued interest, the federal lead-paint disclosure requirement for every pre-1978 Maryland property, written move-in and move-out condition reports, the 60-day pre-lease-end renewal notice for tenancies of a year or more, and the Maryland Code Real Property §8-208 prohibition on penalty clauses for late rent above what the statute allows. We track every legislative change in Annapolis and every county-level regulatory update so you don't have to.

Most likely yes if the property is rental housing in Montgomery County. Montgomery County Rent Stabilization (Bill 15-23, signed July 25, 2023; codified in MoCo Code Chapter 29) caps annual rent increases on covered rental units at the lesser of CPI-U for the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria area plus 3%, or 6%. The cap is administered by the Office of Rent Stabilization (ORS) within the Montgomery County Department of Housing and Community Affairs (DHCA), and tenant complaints are adjudicated by the Office of Landlord-Tenant Affairs (OLTA). Newly constructed rental units are exempt for 23 years after the certificate of occupancy. Owner-occupied dwellings where the owner lives in the property typically qualify for the owner-occupied exemption. We audit your property's coverage status on day one, file the required notices, and recalculate compliant rent increases at every renewal. Violating the cap triggers OLTA-handled tenant restitution claims, rent rollbacks, and remedies — the most expensive avoidable mistake in MoCo.

No — and this is the single most-misunderstood difference in the MD rental market. Howard County has no county-wide rent-stabilization regime on private market-rate single-family rentals. Montgomery County Rent Stabilization caps annual increases at CPI-U + 3% or 6%, whichever is lower, for covered MoCo units. Howard County (Columbia, Ellicott City, Elkridge) follows the statewide Maryland Real Property Code Title 8 default — landlords may raise rent at lease renewal by the amount the market supports, subject to the statutory notice rule and statewide non-discrimination protections. Prince George's County's Permanent Rent Stabilization and Protection Act of 2024 (effective September 15, 2024) caps increases at CPI-U + 3% or 6%, whichever is lower — administratively similar to MoCo. The county-by-county regime is the reason a one-size-fits-all MD property manager misses real money. We price your renewal increase based on the actual jurisdiction your property sits in — not a brand-wide guess.

We cover three MD counties: Montgomery County (Bethesda, Rockville, Silver Spring, North Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Potomac, Gaithersburg, Germantown), Howard County (Columbia, Ellicott City), and Prince George's County (Bowie, Hyattsville). Our Maryland office is at 10411 Motor City Dr Suite 750, Bethesda MD 20817 — the Pinnacle Business Center next to NIH. We manage single-family homes, townhouses, condos, and small multi-unit buildings throughout the I-270 tech corridor, the Capital Beltway, and the BWI corridor.

Eviction coordination is included with annual Preferred or Concierge Tenant Placement + Management for tenants we placed. Owners pay court filing costs and attorney fees.

Maryland Real Property §8-203 caps residential security deposits at two months' rent. The deposit must be held in a Maryland branch banking account in trust for the tenant. Landlords must return the deposit within 45 days of lease termination, with an itemized written list of any deductions for damages beyond ordinary wear and tear, accompanied by receipts for any repair charge above the statutory threshold. Statutory interest must accrue on the deposit at the daily U.S. Treasury yield curve rate for 1-year (as of the first business day of each year) OR 1.5% per year, whichever is greater. Interest is paid at monthly intervals and is not compounded. Failure to itemize within the 45-day window, failure to pay statutory interest, or unreasonable retention triggers a tenant claim for up to 3× the wrongfully withheld amount plus reasonable attorney's fees under §8-203. On every lease we manage, we track the 45-day clock, document move-in and move-out condition with timestamped photos, calculate accrued interest using the statutory rate, and handle itemization.

Maryland has one of the highest concentrations of federal civilian employees in the country — NIH Bethesda, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, NRC Rockville, FDA White Oak (Silver Spring), NIST Gaithersburg, NOAA Silver Spring, and HHS Parklawn all sit inside our coverage area. Federal employees offer stable W-2 income on a published GS pay scale, but every continuing-resolution fight is a renter cash-flow risk. During the 2018–19 35-day federal shutdown, MD landlords without shutdown-prepared federal tenants saw rent slippage. We stress-test federal-employee income beyond base salary: we verify liquid-reserve documentation, build ACH auto-pay provisions into federal-tenant leases, and include lease language coordinating late-fee timing during declared government funding lapses.

Yes, in all three counties — and the rules differ. Montgomery County issues a Rental Housing License through the Department of Housing and Community Affairs (DHCA), renewed annually (July 1 - June 30), with an inspection requirement every three years for multifamily properties. Howard County issues a rental housing license through the Department of Inspections, Licenses & Permits (DILP) under the Howard County Property Maintenance Code; the Director inspects the dwelling before issuing the license. Prince George's County issues a Rental Facility License through the Department of Permitting, Inspections and Enforcement (DPIE). Each jurisdiction has its own inspection checklist, application fee, and lead-paint-affidavit requirement under the Maryland Reduction of Lead Risk in Housing Act (1994) — MDE registration required for pre-1978 rental properties. We handle all three counties' license applications, renewals, and inspection coordination as part of management.

Maryland's HOME Act (Md. Code, State Government §20-705), enacted in 2020, prohibits discrimination based on source of income across the entire state — meaning you cannot refuse a tenant simply because their rent will be paid partially or wholly with a Housing Choice Voucher (Section 8), VASH, Bridge Subsidy, or similar housing assistance. MoCo, HoCo, and PG County overlay their own protections on top. What you CAN still do is apply standard underwriting — income-to-rent ratio (calculated on the tenant's share of rent, not the gross rent), credit history, rental history, criminal background (subject to local fair-housing limits) — uniformly across every applicant. We run the HUD Section 8 voucher pipeline on managed properties, coordinate Housing Quality Standards inspection scheduling, and document our underwriting criteria so a denied voucher applicant cannot claim discriminatory pretext.

MoCo and HoCo are 20 minutes apart but operate in different regulatory worlds. Montgomery County: Rent Stabilization (Bill 15-23) caps annual increases at CPI-U + 3% or 6%, whichever is lower, administered by ORS within DHCA, with OLTA adjudicating tenant complaints. DHCA issues annual Rental Housing Licenses with a 3-year inspection cycle for multifamily. Howard County: no county-wide rent stabilization, rental housing license through DILP with inspection before license issues, and a regulatory environment that broadly defers to the statewide Title 8 default. Translation for landlords: a Bethesda renewal needs a compliant cap-aware increase; an Ellicott City renewal targets market within Title 8's notice and non-discrimination rules. Same flat fee from us, different playbook per jurisdiction.