Ziprent handles leasing, tenant screening, rent collection, maintenance coordination and statutory deposit accounting for Plant City owners — one flat monthly fee per property.
Plant City’s Building Division answers the question directly: “No, you must hire a licensed contractor for any work done on rental or income producing property.” The owner-builder exemption that lets a Florida homeowner permit their own re-roof, water heater or bathroom gut is not available once the house is an income property. Florida law backs the city up. Fla.
Stat. 489.103(7) limits the exemption to improvements for the owner’s own occupancy and “not offered for sale or lease,” and provides that sale or lease within one year of completion creates a presumption the work was done for lease. For a Plant City owner that means a licensed contractor on every permitted job, budgeted from day one — and it means a turn that includes permitted work is a contractor scheduling problem, not a weekend project.
Florida gives a landlord two deadlines after a Plant City tenant moves out, and missing the second is expensive. If you intend to make no claim on the deposit, you have 15 days to return it. If you intend to claim any part of it, you have 30 days from the tenant vacating to send written notice by certified mail to the tenant’s last known mailing address, stating the amount and the reason, and including the statutory sentence telling the tenant they have 15 days to object in writing.
A landlord who misses the 30-day window “forfeits the right to impose a claim upon the security deposit” and must return the money, though a separate damages suit remains possible. Deposits must sit in a separate account or be bonded; landlords renting fewer than five units are outside those holding rules.
| Area | Typical rental stock | What owners ask about |
|---|---|---|
| Walden Lake | Detached single-family in HOA sub-neighborhoods, some golf frontage | Whether HOA lease approval and minimum lease terms shrink the tenant pool |
| Downtown Plant City Historic Residential District | Older detached houses, some previously divided | Permitting older work, and the licensed-contractor rule before re-letting |
| Sam Allen / SR 574 corridor | Newer subdivision single-family | Pricing against new-build lease-ups nearby |
| Dover and Springhead | Larger-lot single-family on the eastern edge | Well and septic responsibilities, longer lease terms |
| Cork and Knights | Rural-edge houses and manufactured homes | Minimum housing code inspections and site maintenance |
| Turkey Creek | Detached homes on generous lots south of the city | Insurance, outbuildings and lawn-service scope |
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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.
Plant City 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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Plant City 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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