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The town of Los Altos Hills may not be very large, but that’s entirely on purpose. Strict zoning and commercial laws have drastically controlled the city’s growth in the unhurried style envisioned by the town’s supporters of incorporation all the way back in the 1950s. Commercial and residential zoning laws make it next to impossible for businesses to start within town limits and also nearly impossible to purchase lots of land under a square acre large. This, undoubtedly has helped the town of Los Altos Hills maintain its rural roots and remain relatively untouched by the high technology industries that consume much else of Silicon Valley.
Largely seen as a commuter town, many of the town’s nearly 8,000 residents are employees of businesses in the surrounding Silicon Valley or faculty of one of the many colleges and university’s adjacent to the area, like Stanford University, which is about 5 miles away. Along with being a commuter town, a place whose residents largely work outside city limits, the town of Los Altos Hills is also known as a contract town, because of the number of traditionally city operated services outsourced to neighboring agencies. For example, the town does not have its own police department, fire department, post office, or library. Instead, emergency responders from Los Altos and Santa Clara County have agreements with the town to provide police, fire, and emergency services, while residents in need of a post office or visit to the library are expected to travel outside Los Altos Hills and into Santa Clara County to use their postal and library facilities. By outsourcing many of the city’s public services and instituting such strict zoning laws, the town of Los Altos Hills has become a city with a quality of life that is among the best in the country. And it is this fact which makes property owners in Los Altos Hills very lucky.
Being such a desirable place to live, owners of vacant property in Los Altos Hills rarely have trouble finding a renter to occupy their home. Where the trouble comes, many first time property managers discover, is not in finding rental applicants, but in dealing with the renters when they become tenants. Books are expected to be balanced, rules enforced, and debts collected; and if the property owner doesn't have a team of professionals on its side to walk the owner through every step of the management process, the owners may quickly find themselves in over their heads.
The beauty of partnering with a professional Los Altos Hills property management company is that it allows the property owner to outsource all of the trivial duties and headaches that often accompany landlord-ship In effect, the Los Altos Hills property management team becomes the agent and representative of the property owner so that the owner’s only duty each month is to cash the rent checks from their tenants. With the fee to partner with a Los Altos Hills property management team typically set at a percentage of rent collected, property owners don’t have to wonder whether or not they can afford to hire a management company full time because, if the tenant doesn't pay their rent, the owner isn't expected to pay their management company. Plus, in the event a tenant doesn't pay their rent, the management company is fully equipped to initiate the necessary legal requirements to recover any money lost.
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