Property management in Grove City, Ohio

Franklin County. That settles two things at once: an eviction is filed at Franklin County Municipal Court, 375 S. High St., Columbus, where Eviction Court sits in Courtroom 11B, and the rental owner information required by Ohio Revised Code 5323.02 is filed with the Franklin County Auditor. Grove City has its own council and its own code, but both of those are county functions.

Franklin County Municipal Court, 375 S. High St., Columbus, OH 43215, with Eviction Court in Courtroom 11B. Eviction jurisdiction in Ohio follows the county under R.C. 1901.02. Before the filing, Ohio requires a three-day notice to leave the premises under R.C. 1923.04 with specific statutory language, served by certified mail, handed to the resident, or left at the property. A notice with the wrong wording gets the case dismissed and costs you about three weeks.

The City of Columbus supplies water. Grove City is on the Columbus Department of Public Utilities water and sewer contract community list, and the Columbus Division of Water has been replacing meters in Grove City under the Columbus Enhanced Meter Project, which Grove City describes as mandatory for all customers served by the Columbus Division of Water under Columbus City Code 1105.038. Grove City itself maintains the local sanitary collection system, more than 197 miles of sewers and about 4,600 manholes. Electricity is AEP Ohio, natural gas is Columbia Gas of Ohio.

Across the units we manage in Grove City the median rent is $1,845 for a three bedroom and $2,549 for a four bedroom. Those are our own portfolio medians, not a market survey, and we publish no one or two bedroom median here because the sample is below the five-unit minimum we hold ourselves to. The spread inside the city is wide: a small mid-century house near the Town Center and a recent four bedroom in a subdivision should not be priced from the same number.

Yes, with the Franklin County Auditor. Ohio Revised Code 5323.02 requires the owner of residential rental property to file their name, address and telephone number, plus the property street address and permanent parcel number, with the auditor of the county where the property sits, and to update within 60 days of any change. There is no filing fee, and failing to file draws a special assessment under R.C. 5323.99 of $50 to $150, with the Franklin County Auditor stating $150 per tax year.

A genuinely mixed stock, which is what makes the city hard to generalise about. Around the Town Center and the older grid off Broadway and Park Street the houses are smaller and mid-century. Out toward Stringtown Road, Hoover Road, Buckeye Parkway and the Route 665 corridor the stock is newer, larger and subdivision-shaped, three and four bedrooms on full-size lots, some of it recent construction.

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 $1,845 three bedroom, a manager charging 10% of collected rent takes about $2,220 a year plus roughly $923 again each time the unit turns. Photography is not included in the leasing fee and is billed separately at $250 to $450. Every other charge is published on the pricing page.

It is one of the steadier parts of the metro to own in, for unglamorous reasons: three and four bedroom houses attract households that move for schools and jobs, which usually means longer tenancies and fewer turns than a market of small units. The trade is a higher repair bill per event, because a larger house has more of everything. The reserve decides whether it works, not the rent. Our maintenance reserve calculator runs that at no charge.