Honest comparison
Looking for a Ziprent alternative in Washington?
Ziprent and Palace agree on the thing that matters most — a percentage of your rent is a bad way to price property management. We are also structured similarly: a recurring management fee, with tenant placement priced separately. Where we genuinely differ is whose bank account your rent lands in, who has to approve a repair, and whether the person accountable is licensed in your state.
What Ziprent is
Ziprent is a technology-led property management company operating across a number of US states. Like us, it prices as a flat fee rather than a percentage of rent, and it is one of the few national operators to do so. Like us, it also prices tenant placement separately from management. The difference is that Ziprent will market your vacancy and run the showings; we will not.
We describe how Ziprent is structured, not what it charges — their pricing is theirs to change, and a figure quoted here would be out of date before long. For current pricing, go to Ziprent’s own site ↗.
Ziprent and Palace, side by side
| Ziprent | Palace Property Management | |
|---|---|---|
| Fee structure | Flat fee — the same core idea as ours, with leasing priced separately. | Flat fee, and the same shape: $109 per unit, per month to manage, with placement and renewal as their own flat one-offs. This row is not where we differ. |
| Listings and showings | Offered end to end — they will market the unit and run the showings for you. | We do neither. You advertise the unit and open the door; we take over at the application and run screening and the lease from there. If you want a manager who fills the unit for you, this row is a genuine reason to pick them. |
| Who holds your rent | Rent is collected into the manager’s account and paid out to you on their schedule. | Nobody. Your tenant pays you directly — rent never enters our company account, so it is never pooled, delayed or exposed. |
| Repair approval | Typically a spending threshold, below which repairs proceed without asking you. | Your approval on every repair, at any amount. No threshold, and no invoice you did not agree to. |
| Coverage | Operates across multiple states. | Washington only. One state’s rules, one market, one set of vendors we actually know. |
| Who you talk to | A support channel, with the person answering varying by ticket. | One of two named people who own the company. Hamid holds the broker license; Amir handles onboarding. |
| Repair invoices | Check their current terms on markup. | Passed through at the vendor’s actual invoice. We add nothing and take no vendor referral fee. |
Choose Ziprent if
These are real, and we would rather you hear them from us than find out later.
- Your unit is empty and you want somebody else to advertise it and run the showings. This is the clearest case — we do neither, and you would need a second party for it.
- You own rentals in several states and want one manager across all of them. We only work in Washington.
- You would rather approve a repair budget once than be asked about every individual repair. Our no-threshold approval rule is deliberate, but it does mean more messages.
Choose Palace if
Flat $109 per unit, per month, across Washington.
- You are happy to advertise the unit and open the door yourself, and want everything from the application onward handled for you at a flat figure rather than a share of the rent.
- You want rent paid to you directly rather than routed through a manager’s account and released on their schedule.
- Your property is in Washington and you would rather have a licensed local broker than a national operator with a Washington footprint.
- You want to know the name of the person handling your property.
Switching from Ziprent
Is Palace cheaper than Ziprent?
That depends on their current pricing, so check their site for today’s numbers rather than trusting a figure on ours — it would be out of date within months. What we can tell you without qualification is our own: $109 per unit, per month to manage, $109 unchanged whatever your rent is, $499 to place a tenant, $299 to draft a renewal, no statement fee and no markup on repairs. Compare those against their equivalents line by line, and note that our placement number is lower partly because you keep the listing and the showings. Price is not actually the strongest reason to choose between us — rent custody and repair approval are.
Can I use Ziprent to find a tenant and Palace to manage?
You can use anyone you like to advertise the unit and run the showings — an agent of your choosing, another company, or yourself. Come to us as soon as you have interest and we will take the application, screen the applicant, draft the lease and run the tenancy from there. It is worth talking to us before the lease is finalized so it is written the way we would want to manage it.
What actually happens to my rent with each?
With most managers, including the national flat-fee operators, rent is collected into their account and paid out to you on their cycle. With Palace it goes straight from your tenant to your bank. We set up the channel, watch that it lands, and chase it the moment it does not — but we never hold it. That means it is never pooled with other owners’ money, never delayed by our banking, and never at risk if something happened to us.
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