Ziprent handles leasing, tenant screening, rent collection, maintenance coordination and statutory deposit accounting for Longmont owners — one flat monthly fee per property.
Longmont defines a short-term rental as a rental for fewer than 30 days of an entire dwelling, or of individual rooms in an owner-occupied dwelling, and every one of them needs both a short-term rental license and a sales and use tax license from the city. The eligibility rule is the one that stops most out-of-area investors: the City states plainly that only City of Longmont residents are eligible for a short-term rental license, and licenses are renewed annually.
Reporting on the program describes a $100 license fee with a $100 annual renewal plus a $25 sales and use tax license, and a density rule in the R-RU and R-SF zones allowing roughly one short-term rental per side of a street per block without conditional use approval. Unlicensed operation draws code enforcement; local reporting describes a penalty schedule of $100 for a first violation, $200 for a second and $500 for subsequent ones — per violation, not per day. Rent for 30 days or more and none of it applies.
C.R.S. 38-12-105, enacted by Senate Bill 21-173, sets hard limits that a lease cannot bargain around. You may not charge a late fee until the rent is seven days past due. The fee itself is capped at the greater of $50 or 5% of the amount of past-due rent — so on a $1,620 Longmont median rent, 5% is $81, and $81 is the ceiling rather than a starting point.
The fee has to be written into the lease to be chargeable at all, no interest may compound on it, and no late fee may be charged against a housing subsidy payment. Owners who inherit an out-of-state lease template are the ones most often caught: a $75 fee assessed on the third of the month is unenforceable on both counts, and the practical fix is a compliant clause plus rent collection that flags the arrears before day seven.
| Area | Typical rental stock | What owners ask about there |
|---|---|---|
| Old Town / Historic Eastside | Late-1800s and early-1900s houses, converted duplexes | Whether a converted unit qualifies for a short-term rental license at all |
| Prospect New Town | New-urbanist row houses, carriage units above garages | HOA rules on leasing and whether a carriage unit is a separate dwelling |
| Southmoor Park | 1960s-1970s ranches and split-levels | Sewer scope and roof age before a first lease-up |
| Clover Basin / Meadowview | 1990s-2000s detached family homes | Minimum lease terms and school-year turnover timing |
| Twin Peaks / Lake Park | Mid-century homes and townhomes near the golf course | Late fee clauses inherited from old leases and rent collection timing |
| Ute Creek / Fox Meadows | Newer detached homes on the east side | Metro district fees and pricing against a softening median |
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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
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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.
Longmont 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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Longmont 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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