Need tenant placement services to find the perfect tenant?
Let Ziprent help find you a tenant for only $1500
Navigation of Cerritos laws is not easy. Our local agents utilize our proprietary state-of-the-art software to bring you the best in Cerritos tenant placement. For one low flat fee, our Cerritos tenant placement service includes next-day listing, professional photography and 3d tours, on-demand showings, and seamless automated application processing to ensure the lowest vacancy cost for our Cerritos landlords.
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If you self-manage in Cerritos and only need the vacancy filled, this is that. Ziprent handles listing through lease signing for a flat $1,500, charged only when the lease is executed. It is the same team and the same written screening standard we apply to the properties we manage month to month.
The industry norm for placement is one month of rent. At a Cerritos median of $3,440, one month is $3,440 and Ziprent charges a flat $1,500 — about 44% of a month, and roughly $1,940 less per lease. The gap widens as the rent rises, because the fee does not move with it.
In California the first thing that binds at the application stage is copy of the credit report. Under Civ. Code 1950.6, the landlord “shall provide a copy of the consumer credit report to the applicant who is the subject of that report by personal delivery, mail, or email within seven days” of receiving it. This is automatic — the applicant does not have to ask.
The other one owners get wrong here is order-of-application / ab 2493: a landlord may charge a screening fee only by choosing one of three paths: (1) consider completed applications “in the order in which the completed applications were received” and approve the first applicant meeting the established criteria; (2) accept a reusable screening report no more than 30 days old and charge nothing; or (3) charge multiple applicants and refund the full fee to every applicant not selected — within 7 days of selecting a tenant, or 30 days after receipt if no one is selected. (AB 2493 (2024), amending Civ. Code 1950.6, effective 1 Jan 2025).
Most Southern California cities license short-term rentals and tax them. Cerritos prohibits them. Cerritos Municipal Code 22.40.260 states that its purpose “is to prohibit all short-term rentals, in any residential zone, including but not limited to vacation rentals and home sharing activities,” and subsection (2) is unambiguous: “Short-term rentals, including, but not limited to, vacation rentals and home sharing are prohibited in all residential zones.
No permit or any other applicable license or entitlement for use, including the issuance of a business license, shall be approved or issued for the operation of a short-term rental in any residential zone throughout the city.” Subsection (4) declares any violation a public nuisance and lets the city attorney pursue a civil action, administrative or judicial nuisance abatement, code enforcement proceedings, or injunctive relief. The section was adopted by Ordinance 1005 section 3 in 2016. Separately, CMC 22.40.250 permits boarding houses only in listed zones, only with a boarding house permit renewed annually, only where the owner lives on site throughout the tenancy, and only up to two boarders, with an inspection before the permit issues. In Cerritos, the long-term lease is the business model.
We price against comparable units that have signed in the last ninety days, not against what is currently sitting unrented. A listing priced to an aspirational number does not fail loudly; it just sits, and every week it sits costs more than the pricing difference would have.
Prospective tenants book themselves in and view the property when they can get there, including evenings and weekends. Feedback comes back to you after every showing, including the ones that do not convert, because that is usually where the pricing signal is.
Credit, verified income, rental history and a background check on every adult applicant, measured against one written standard applied to everyone in the order applications arrive. That is both the fairer way to do it and the only position that is defensible if a decision is ever challenged.
A lease drafted to the state statute rather than a generic template, the deposit collected and held to the statutory rules, and a dated move-in condition report with photographs so that whatever is argued about at the end, the condition at the start is not.
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2019
Year Founded
4,546
Units Managed
639
Cities Served
9,848
Tenant Placements
201,190
On-Demand Showings
591.6M
Rent Processed
47,039
Repairs Coordinated
65,855
Applications Processed
18
Licensed States
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.
Cerritos 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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Cerritos 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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