Property management in Galloway, Ohio

No. Galloway is an unincorporated community in southern Prairie Township, in western Franklin County, at the intersection of Galloway Road and Sullivant Avenue. It has no mayor, no council and no municipal code of its own. Prairie Township governs land use under Ohio Revised Code Chapter 519, and the Franklin County Sheriff provides law enforcement in the unincorporated portion.

Franklin County. The whole 43119 area sits in Franklin County, so the eviction court and the county auditor are the same regardless of which side of a corporation line a given parcel falls on. That consistency is exactly why owners stop checking the rest.

Franklin County Municipal Court. The civil and eviction division sits at 375 S. High St., 3rd floor, Columbus, OH 43215, and its jurisdiction runs countywide under Ohio Revised Code 1901.02. That is true for a Galloway parcel in unincorporated Prairie Township and for one inside the Columbus city limits. Before filing, Ohio requires a three-day notice to leave the premises under R.C. 1923.04, with specific statutory language and correct service.

Not necessarily, and this is the thing to check. The 43119 ZIP carries a Galloway mailing address and covers a large stretch of western Franklin County, including parcels inside the City of Columbus and parcels in unincorporated Prairie Township. The Galloway post office itself sits inside Columbus, about two miles north of the actual community. Pull the parcel on the Franklin County Auditor site and read the taxing district. It decides your zoning authority, your code enforcement, your police response and whether a municipal income tax applies to residents.

Yes, with the Franklin County Auditor. Ohio Revised Code 5323.02 requires the owner of residential rental property to file the owner name, address and telephone number plus the property address and parcel number with the county auditor, and to update it within 60 days of any change. There is no fee. The Franklin County Auditor states a penalty of $150 per tax year for failing to file, within a statutory range of $50 to $150 under R.C. 5323.99. This applies to a township parcel and a city parcel alike.

Across the units we manage in Galloway, the median rent is $1,885 for a three bedroom. That is our own portfolio median, not a market survey and not a public rent index. We do not publish a bedroom-level figure for Galloway at any other bedroom count, because our sample there does not reach the five-unit floor we set before publishing one.

Mostly detached single-family houses on conventional suburban lots, built as western Franklin County filled in from the 1970s onward, with pockets of newer subdivision construction and some older acreage parcels closer to the original crossroads. Three bedroom houses are the working stock and the reason our Galloway median is a three bedroom number. Applicants here are typically working households priced out of the inner suburbs, which makes screening and the first late-rent conversation matter more than marketing does.

A flat $117 to $184 per unit per month depending on plan, with a $0 leasing fee and $250 on a lease renewal. On a $1,885 house, a manager charging 10% of collected rent takes about $2,268 a year plus roughly half a month of rent every time the unit turns. Photography is not included in the leasing fee and is billed separately at $250 to $450.