ReLISTO’s Automated Showing Schedule Serves SF Renters Amidst New Health Orders

Along with many other local rental agencies, ReLISTO is celebrating San Francisco’s transition from Orange Tier to Yellow Tier in the revised health orders issued by the San Francisco Department of Public Health on May 4, 2021.

Health order tiers in relation to Bay Area rentals and open houses — Diagram of California’s color-coded tier system by San Francisco Chronicle

Yellow Tier is Great News for Rental Agencies and Landlords!

Orange Tier required Bay Area rental agencies to limit open houses to virtual tours or scheduled private tours to individuals. As a result, we accommodated these health & safety restrictions by recording virtual tours for our listed properties and scheduling multiple 15-minute private tours for prospective tenants every day.

In Yellow Tier, tours can now be conducted in groups (by appointment only) under the conditions outlined by the San Francisco Department of Public Health in Order No. C19-07w – Appendix C-1: Additional Businesses Permitted to Operate [Revised May 6, 2021].

ReLISTO’s Commitment to Landlords

The most effective way to find a qualified tenant while securing solid rent is to provide a personalized tour of your rental property. With over 11 years of experience, we understand the value this connection brings to our owners.

With this in mind, we have created an automated open house scheduling system to streamline the scheduling process of showings for prospective tenants. In other words, our unique, proprietary software gets your property to the renters’ eyes much faster and allows our agents more time to focus on customer service.

How to Access Our Automated Showing Schedule:

Use the quick step-by-step guide as shown below:

Visit our Showing Schedule and choose which listing you’d like to RSVP to.
Click the green “I’d like to RSVP” button on the right of the listing.
You will see a pop-up form where you can RSVP, ask questions, and provide your contact information (Name, Email, Phone Number).
Once the fields are filled out, click the button on the bottom of the pop-up, “Send Message to ReLISTO Agent.”
The ReLISTO agent assigned to the requested property will contact you to confirm the scheduled showing.

Why Work with Us?

Today, the numbers are clear; people are moving back to the city. Offices are setting dates for employees to return, and former residents are yearning for a taste of the city as it once was.

ReLISTO is seeing an incredible amount of interest for every single one of our listed properties. Our unmatched technological capabilities and responsiveness bring our website over 30,000 views every month.

With San Francisco in Yellow Tier, we are excited to level up our commitment to our landlords while continuing to stay vigilant in keeping prospective tenants safe.

Landlords:

We would love to rent your property. Contact us and we will reach out to set up a 1-on-1 with one of our licensed agents.

Prospective Tenants:

Visit our Showing Schedule to RSVP to our many properties available to you now!

Tenants Again Pushing Pause On Return

Here is an unfortunate email we just wrote to one of our landlords. The property was a 2 bedroom 1 bathroom house in the Sunset which was slated to rent for $3800.00/month with a March 1, 2021 start date.

<Landlord>

I hope you are doing well. I unfortunately would like to let you know that your tenants have decided to withdraw their applications. <Tenant > company <Amazon> just released the news that employees do not have to return to office until next year. Due to the change, they will extend their travel to different destinations.

ReLISTO has been very successful in securing tenants for our landlords clients during Covid. We conduct virtual and private tours, post videos of each property and have an amazing set of online tools allowing prospective tenants to easily view each unit. Most importantly, we pay for a lot of advertising so our landlords listing gets seen.

In the last month, tenants have been returning to the city to “get a lease secured before prices go up”. We have rented multiple properties due to this. With recent announcement from Salesforce and other tech companies, the need to return to work is again a distant requirement. Tech workers will stay away and landlords, restaurants and businesses will need to wait longingly for their return. For some , this will result in a significant economic hardship if not bankruptcy.

On behalf of our landlords, I call upon the San Francisco Govt to proactively engage/ partner with the companies in our community as well as local schools to make a plan to get things back to normal. Some cannot wait till 2022.

Environmentally Friendly Leasing and Property Management

ReLISTO has a new car! Residential leasing and property management requires quite a lot of travel, so you may have seen us zipping around town or parked in your neighborhood! Our new electric 2019 Smart CQ allows us to greater flexibility and versatility to serve our clients quickly and efficiently as ever. In addition to keeping ReLISTO’s team members agile, our little electric vehicle furthers our efforts to reduce our carbon footprint. This means we provide premiere residential leasing and property management services you can feel good about.

For the last 10 years, ReLISTO has been an industry leader in the use of innovative tools and technologies to deliver residential leasing and property management services. From our nearly paperless operations to proprietary online rental calculators, ReLISTO is dedicated to leading the real estate leasing industry in serving not only clients, but also the community as a whole. ReLISTO is aligned with San Francisco’s commitment to lower greenhouse gas emissions by employing greener alternatives for our operational processes. The biggest contributor to the city’s greenhouse gas emission is privately owned passenger cars and trucks.

Because leasing agents and property managers are required to travel around the city constantly to show and maintain property, moving from internal combustion engine vehicles to electric is one of the best ways to cut the company’s carbon footprint. With 44% of San Francisco’s electrical grid running on renewable energy sources, ReLISTO’s use of electric vehicles reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions we would otherwise create by 75%! ReLISTO applauds the city’s efforts to lower transportation-related emissions and is committed to doing our part as an industry leader–providing exceptional and environmentally friendly residential leasing and property management services in order to reduce our overall environmental impact.