Tenants - Our managed rental homes are owned by seasoned investors who have owned these homes for a number of years. As letting agents in Kissimmee, we qualify both our investor rental owners and potential tenants. We screen applicants for employment, credit, criminal and background. Tenants your current credit score- isn’t as important as your long term credit history and current stable employment

Renters Choice Homes LLC
"The Investment Specialists"

By appointment only
1633 E.Vine Street
Suite 104/105
Kissimmee, FL 34744
Phone 407-933-2367
Email: info@renterschoicehomes.com
UK Phone 0871-284-2109
UK Office hrs 2-10pm GMT

We specialize in long term rental homes in Kissimmee/St Cloud, Davenport,Clermont and Orlando.

We have a small selection of Great Escape vacation homes for kids of all ages. Click here to see our vacation homes vacation rentals

We are letting agents for yearly rental homes in Kissimmee, St Cloud and Davenport. Investment homeowners-we have nineteen years experience in long term rentals in Kissimmee Florida. click here to see some of the best deals. hot rentals

Tenants- looking for a place to live in year round. We have selected some of the best homes available All are in excellent condition and priced at fair market rent.

Owners- are you looking to sell when the market returns? We have an excellent exit management program for you, call us for details. Ask about our estate agency and letting services including our Orlando & Kissimmee letting and management packages. We're very knowledgeable and easy to deal with and our owner Anne-Marie is originally from Manchester, England UK she's been here 19 years and is very familiar with "Buy to Let programs".

Frequent Questions & Answers About Long Term Rentals


How Do You Find Suitable Tenants?
Finding suitable tenants in Central Florida is not a game of chance. You don't magically get a decent tenant or not. It's not the luck of the draw either. A well thought out application and screening process with employment, criminal and background checks. We also require personal and family references. This usually ensures you end up with qualified tenants who will love your home and think of it as their own home.


How Long Does It Take To Find A Suitable Tenant?
As long as your home shows well and is in great shape, it shouldn't take long at all. Typical time is between 2 days to 6 weeks.

How Do You Qualify Tenants?
There are official agencies we subscribe to where we can order official written reports on all potential applicants. Check out our on-line application and you'll see our detailed application. We call all the references personally and verify their income.

What About The Lease?
Our leases are drawn up each time by an attorney at no additional cost to the owner. We don't use the standard leases that you can buy from an office supply store. We don't use the FARBAR leases either even though we are realtors. We believe it's in your best interest to have your homes lease drawn up by an attorney who specializes in Florida leases for residential properties. Our attorney's have many years experience in Florida landlord and tenant laws.

Do We Get to Choose Our Tenants?
Absolutely, as the owners of a Kissimmee long term rental home. We ask for your permission before drawing up a lease on your behalf. We provide you details on each applicant. The decision is yours, we provide you with detailed information so you can make an informed decision.

I've heard tenants will damage your home- is this true?
Who are these people who think that tenants will damage your Kissimmee long term rental home? - Consider the source- what do they really know? Think about this for a moment? Have you ever rented a home, if so did you damage it? How many people do you know that would damage a home on purpose?

Can My STR Manager Do Long Term Rentals?
Vacation rentals and long term rentals are totally different businesses. A manager experienced in short term shouldn't attempt long term rentals without the state requirements licensing and legal requirements and years of experience.

What's the difference with the licenses?
Short term vacations management & rental companies are licensed under Fl statues 509. They do not need to take any courses in property management or have any required state mandated education. Your property manager is only required to have an occupational business tax licenses from the county and needs no experience to apply for and obtain licensing. The state requires that long term rental homes are either managed by the owner or a licensed Real Estate Broker who is currently active with the state and licensed under Florida Statues chapter 475. Brokers undergo extensive state required courses and must pass the state exams and on going education every two years.

Will I Really Benefit from a Long Term Rental?
Most of our owners started out with their homes as vacation rentals. They were emotionally attached to their vacation home and it's wonderful furniture, pool and location. If you're unsure about long term rentals. We recommend for the first year you store most of your furnishings. The cost of storage is approx $150 per month. On a 3/2 pool home your net returns after after commission and expenses is approx $9,900 in year one. Some owners told us they were spending as much as $30,000 a year subsidizing their home and now they are H-A-P-P-Y as they get rental checks monthly!

Confidence in Our Management Services?
Somewhere mid through year one-when you realize that the rent checks come each and every month. You'll start to breathe a little more easier. Then comes the realization that you don't have to come here on vacation. A family is actually living in your Orlando rental home. You are now free to see the world.

Financial Returns?
All your hard earned cash and savings aren't going to support your long term rental home in Florida. You have turned your Florida home into an investment, instead of a beautiful luxurious money pit. With the added savings you can stay in a different brand new home each time you come out to Orlando on vacation or you can now go on vacation anywhere. Think about a taking a cruise around the Caribbean you now have the freedom to make that choice again.

What Happens If The Tenants Don't Pay The Rent?
This rarely happens- but when it does. We serve them with a 3 day notice prepared by the attorney for them to deliver the rent or quit the premises. This usually gets the rent paid. Evictions for us are few and far between. Remember our careful screening process. We've only had to do two evictions in the last five years. Each one took around 6 weeks from start to finish and cost the owners less than $1,000. Remember the attorney that drew up the lease? Well he'll be the one handling the eviction at a lower rate than most attorney's. It's his leases and his guidelines we use- so he gives us a good discount on an eviction.

Property Taxes?
These are the responsibility of the Florida homeowner and not the tenant unlike the UK or other Countries. Your should receive your property tax bill in November every year. Failure to pay your property taxes for 3 years will result in the county foreclosing on your home to pay your back taxes. If you don't receive a property tax bill- you will need to contact the county where your home is located to verify your mailing address. Here's Osceola County's tax collectors website
www.osceolataxcollector.com
Osceola County which includes all addresses which include Kissimmee, St Cloud, parts of Poinciana, BVL, Remington, Celebration, neighborhoods off Formosa Gardens Blvd- such as Indian creek, Rolling Hills, parts of Champions Gate and Reunion and all along highway 192 to the end of the county line.

Polk County www.polktaxes.com
Polk County 4 Corners area starts 1 mile before the end of 192 and goes south towards Haines City and includes Davenport, Loughman & Haines City.

Lake County Tax collector deals with homes located north of highway 192 in Clermont. So, if you neighborhood is around Kegans Landings or Woodridge or further north off highway 27. www.laketax.com

Home Owners Association Fees
These are also the responsibility of the homeowner under state law. If you don't know your homeowners association management company. You will need to find them as they can put a lien on your home for non-payment of fees. As of of our Orlando area long term rental owners- if you don't know who they are- we'll help you locate them.

Insurance
Your premiums maybe reduced as much as $200 per year when switching to an Orlando long term rental home. You will still be insured as a rental home with public liability. As letting agents- we can assist you with the necessary paperwork that will help you reduce that premium.

Hotel License & Rental Taxes
Your home will no longer need to be licensed as a hotel and your sales and resort tax returns and licenses can be cancelled.

Utilities
These will be the responsibility of the tenant. The effective date of the lease is the day you can cancel the utilities in your name at the home. The tenant will establish services in their own name.

Furniture
Your home will need in most cases all appliances. Homes without furniture rent quicker, easier & for more money. Tenants usually have their own furniture. People who are just moving into the area and looking for employment may want to rent furnished homes. Without large deposits- this could end up causing you heartache. We can assist you with storage facilities, names and numbers etc. call us for more in-depth information on this topic.

Pool Service
If you home has a swimming pool- we strongly recommend you include the service in with your rent. We can arrange for a company to service your pool weekly.

Lawn Service
We recommend that the tenants are responsible for cutting the grass and taking of the bushes, trees and plants etc.

Call us and we will answer all of your questions regarding your home. We take homes on board in Kissimmee, St Cloud, Loughman, Davenport & Clermont. We will give you a free assessment of your current situation at no obligation to you to proceed any further. Your inquiry is kept strictly confidential.407-933-2367