Ziprent handles leasing, tenant screening, rent collection, maintenance coordination and statutory deposit accounting for Centreville owners — one flat monthly fee per property.
Start here: Centreville is an unincorporated census-designated place in Fairfax County, with 73,518 residents at the 2020 census, making it the most populous community in the county. There is no Town of Centreville, no Centreville council and no Centreville municipal code. Every land use and permitting rule that touches your rental comes from Fairfax County. The one that catches out-of-state owners is the short-term lodging permit. The county defines short-term lodging as “any occupancy of a dwelling for a period of less than 30 days,” and it requires a permit obtained through the PLUS portal at a fee of $285 (confirm against the county fee schedule), valid two years and taking roughly 14 calendar days to process.
The permit caps you at 60 nights per calendar year and six adults per night, allows only one rental contract per night, and requires that the operator be “a permanent resident of the property hosting the short-term lodging use” with an authorized agent on call. Events, banquets, parties and weddings are prohibited, the permit number must appear in every advertisement, and short-term lodging is not allowed at all in accessory structures, accessory living units or affordable housing units. Lease for 30 days or more and none of it applies — you are on an ordinary Virginia lease.
Virginia does not leave late fees to the lease. Under Va. Code 55.1-1204, “no such late charge shall exceed the lesser of 10 percent of the periodic rent or 10 percent of the remaining balance due and owed by the tenant.” The same section fixes the clock: “rent payments shall be due on the first day of each month during the tenancy and shall be considered late if not paid by the fifth of the month.” It also imposes paperwork most out-of-town owners miss.
You must give a prospective tenant a written rental agreement containing the rental terms together with the statement of tenant rights and responsibilities published by the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development, the parties sign an acknowledgment that the tenant received it, and you must deliver a copy of the signed agreement and the statement within 10 business days of the effective date. If the tenant declines to sign, you document the refusal. Tenants can ask for one more hard copy each year, or electronic access, free.
| Area | Typical rental stock | What owners ask about there |
|---|---|---|
| Sully Station / Sully Station II | Late-1980s to 1990s detached homes, townhomes and garden condos | HOA leasing caps and whether amenity access transfers to a tenant |
| Little Rocky Run | Detached homes and townhomes on wooded lots | Deck and siding replacement timing between tenancies |
| Virginia Run | Larger detached homes on bigger lots | Whether a longer lease term is worth a lower asking rent |
| Compton Village | 1990s detached homes and townhomes | Fairfax County school-calendar turn timing |
| Faircrest / Singleton's Grove | Newer detached homes and townhomes near Route 28 | Contractor and defense tenants on 12-month terms and the 10% late-fee cap |
| Historic Centreville / Country Club Manor | Older ranches, split-levels and small multifamily | Basement conversions and whether a finished basement counts as an accessory living unit |
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2019
Year Founded
4,282
Units Managed
596
Cities Served
9,239
Tenant Placements
189,861
On-Demand Showings
537.4M
Rent Processed
43,438
Repairs Coordinated
60,245
Applications Processed
18
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Pricing
We believe in transparent and flat fee pricing. Don’t let other property managers fool you into thinking they need to take a percentage of your income. Keep your money where it belongs, in your pocket.
Tenant Placement
$1500
Due at lease signing and security deposit receipt. No cost to get started!
Paid when we sign a lease. 100% satisfaction guaranteed!
Property Management
$150/month
Per property. No percentage nonsense.
$100 / month standard management for every additional property added.
$1500 for tenant placement if you need it. $250 per lease renewal.
ZipGuarantee
$250/month
Per property. No percentage nonsense.
$100 / month standard management for every additional property added.
Unlimited tenant placement and lease renewals.
Centreville Property Management
Ziprent is an all-in-one customer service platform that helps you balance everything your customers need to be happy.
Our payment processor issues an ACH direct from tenant to landlord, ensuring the fastest transmittance of rent in the industry. We believe in removing delays and barriers.
We provide tenants the ability to submit maintenance requests online. From there, we gather quotes from our network of qualified experts and coordinate the repair as quickly as possible.
Our customer support team is available 24/7 for you or your tenants. Whatever the issue, rest assured it will be handled with great detail and efficiency..
At any point in time, we will refund up to 3 months of property management fees if you are not satisfied with our services.
Class leading tenant placement service with an average time of 12 days to place a qualified tenant.
Coordinating schedules with prospective tenants is a thing of the past! With Ziprent, prospective tenants can select a time that works for them, and we will send them a unique code to open up a lockbox and view the property.
Our extensive partnership with income, credit, and background data providers ensures near-instant verification of tenant qualifications with the industry’s highest confidence level. In addition, our ZipScore tenant scoring system makes it easy for you to vet and approve prospective tenants.
You are in control. Specify custom lease parameters for your property and setting while having our system generate a comprehensive city, county, and state specific lease that protects you and your property. It is as easy as that.
We’ve partnered with over 20 listing sites, such as Zillow, Trulia, Hotpads, Zumper, Redfin, and Realtor.com, ensuring that your property receives the highest industry-wide exposure!
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“Extremely well-organized, professional, and efficient!!! […] Ziprent was able to do this with ease and in a very straight-forward way. I believe the best part about this company is how it is structured with several teams handling different aspects of the management (i.e. onboarding, repairs, leasing, etc), which made the whole process seamless. That in addition to also being affordable with flat-rate pricing makes this property management company best-in-class.If you’re looking for a property manager, Ziprent comes highly recommended!”
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Centreville FAQ
You got questions? We've got answers.
Our current average time is 14-21 days but depending on price and location it can be anywhere between 3-20 days in general.
Tenants will submit their request via their online account. Our platform will automatically send out bid requests from our extensive vendor network. We will surface the bid to you for your approval and then coordinate with the vendor and tenant to get the issue resolved.
To date we have done on-demand without any major issues. We carry an additional $50k in liability insurance to cover any damages, beyond your coverage, that may occur. Should a key go missing, we will have the locks rekeyed at our cost.
Depends on the location of the property. But at the very least, it needs to be free of clutter and trash, it needs to have been professionally cleaned or cleaned to that quality. Flooring and paint go a long way in making a rental feel refreshed.
We can usually schedule to come out to take photos, do a walk-through and take keys within 24-48 hours. We prefer to take photos when the property is completely empty and move-in ready and can generally get a listing online within 24-48 hours of taking photos.
IOur property management contract can be used for both tenant placement and property management. Our property management fee is tied together with rent collection, so if we aren’t collecting rent through our platform then we aren’t charging our property management fee.
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