Oakwood is the highest-rent, highest-scrutiny residential market in Montgomery County. It is also the one where a passive owner gets the most expensive education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dayton Proper manages single-family rentals in Oakwood. This is a market that rewards attentive management and punishes the absence of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oakwood\u2019s housing stock is largely pre-war, much of it substantially older, and much of it architecturally significant. Slate and tile roofs, plaster walls, steam and hot-water heat, original windows, mature trees over the structures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
None of that is a problem. All of it is expensive to repair badly. A contractor who treats a slate roof like an asphalt roof, or who patches plaster with drywall compound, produces work that costs more to undo than it did to do. The vendor list matters more in Oakwood than in any other market we operate in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oakwood maintains high expectations for property appearance and upkeep, and the city is not shy about enforcement. Deferred exterior maintenance that would go unremarked in another market generates correspondence here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That correspondence goes to the owner. A tenant who lets the landscaping go or leaves cans at the curb creates an owner problem, and unless the lease passes those obligations through explicitly and they are actually monitored, you absorb it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oakwood commands the highest rents in the county, driven by the school district and by the housing itself. The applicant pool is small, specific and comparing you against a handful of alternatives rather than the whole market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n