King County
Property management in Burien, for a flat $109 a month.
Burien is a small city that asks more of a landlord than most cities its size. That is a reason to have someone tracking it, and no reason at all to pay a percentage.
What's different about managing in Burien
Burien is unusual for a city of its size in having adopted tenant protections of its own, which means it cannot be managed on the assumption that county-wide rules are the whole picture. Keeping current with what applies here is genuinely part of the work rather than a formality. Alongside that, the housing is old enough that maintenance coordination is a bigger share of the job than it is in the newer Eastside suburbs.
Requirements change, and keeping current with them for your specific property is part of what the fee covers — not something you need to follow yourself. Everything we handle is listed in full, along with how the model works.
What we manage in Burien
Burien’s rental stock is predominantly older single-family housing on generous lots, with a stretch of waterfront-influenced property around Three Tree Point and Seahurst that rents at a substantial premium to the rest of the city. It is one of the more affordable places in north-central King County to own a rental, and the tenant base is correspondingly diverse — a mix of airport and logistics employment given the proximity to SeaTac, alongside households priced out of Seattle proper. Older stock, mature trees and a lot of original plumbing mean maintenance coordination is a larger share of the job here than in newer Eastside suburbs.
Neighborhoods we manage in
- Seahurst
- Boulevard Park
- Gregory Heights
- Lake Burien
- Three Tree Point
- Beverly Park
- Sunnydale
- Salmon Creek
Why remote management works in Burien
Burien is a good illustration of why the compliance side is the part worth paying for. The city is small, the rents are moderate, and there is no version of a percentage fee that reflects the actual work — but there is a live local overlay that a manager genuinely has to keep up with. Flat pricing puts the fee where the value is: getting the paperwork right, and coordinating trades to an older house.
$109 per unit, per month to manage. Flat.
Not a percentage of your rent, so it does not rise when your rent does. No markup on vendor invoices and no charge for talking to us. The fee pauses while a unit is vacant. Two things sit outside it, both flat and both only when they happen: $499to place a tenant, $299 to draft a renewal.
Burien landlord questions
What makes managing in Burien different from the rest of King County?
Burien has adopted tenant protections that most cities of its size have not, so an owner applying a generic county-wide approach here is working from an incomplete picture. We track what currently applies and manage to it. The practical answer for you is that it is handled and it does not change your fee.
My Burien house is old. What does that mean for repair costs?
More events per year than newer stock — original supply lines, aging drainage, mature trees near roofs and sewer laterals. Maintenance coordination is included in the $109 monthly fee; the repairs are billed at the vendor’s invoice with nothing added. Where something is going to recur, we would rather tell you to fix it properly once than bill you for it four times.
Do you run showings or screen tenants in Burien?
We screen; we do not show. Marketing the unit and standing in it with a prospect stay with you or an agent of your choosing, in Burien as everywhere else. Everything after that is ours — the online application, background, credit and eviction history checks, pet and assistance animal screening, the Washington lease and its addendums, and the tenancy from there. That is our tenant placement package at $499, a flat one-off charged only when a unit turns over rather than a slice of the rent. It is worth talking to us before you have an applicant, so the lease is drafted the way we would want to manage it.
Do you manage the waterfront-influenced properties near Three Tree Point?
Yes. They rent well above the rest of the city, which is exactly where a percentage-based fee starts costing real money for no additional work. The management is the same; only the rent is different, and our fee is not tied to it.
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Managing a rental in Burien?
Tell us the address and the current rent. We'll send back what Palace would charge, what a percentage-based manager would charge, and the difference over five years. No obligation, no sales call unless you ask for one.