How Much Does Property Management Cost in Everett? (2026)

The Joseph Group and SJA Property Management publish management, leasing, and renewal fees. TurboTenant publishes a separate flat-fee managed plan and placement-only offer for Everett. Utopia publishes an 8% to 10% management range. The remaining companies need property-specific proposals. Compare the calculation base, monthly minimum, placement, renewal, and occupied-property setup terms rather than treating the percentages as identical packages.

What Everett Managers Charge in 2026

In this section we will give you the published numbers themselves, drawn from our guide to the best property management companies in Everett, so you can see what to expect before you make a single call. A Google search will speed up the shortlist by pulling up every local firm faster than a phone round can. However, those results cannot show you everything about a company’s pricing, and many rate cards are not as complete as advertised. Where a company does not publish a number, it is marked as such.

The Monthly Management Fee

The monthly fee matters because it pays for the parts of the job you would otherwise be doing yourself: showing the property, screening tenants, enforcing the lease, collecting rents, taking maintenance calls and producing your monthly statements. The Joseph Group’s pricing page lists 10% of collected monthly rent. SJA’s pricing page lists single-family management at 8.9%, with a $235 per-unit monthly minimum, and multifamily at 6.9% to 8.9%, with a $185 per-unit minimum. Utopia lists 8% to 10% and charges no management fee while the property is vacant. T-Square, Coast, Windermere and TurboTenant need current management proposals. Sources checked September 30, 2026.

For orientation, management in the Puget Sound region is generally quoted between 8% and 12% of collected rent, with the larger apartment operators pricing lower on scale. Treat that as general context, not a substitute for the company-specific rates and minimums above. Note also that these firms are not all selling the same thing: Coast Property Management reports over 20,000 apartments under management, which is a very different business from letting a single house in Everett, so establish what a firm actually does for one property before you ask what it charges.

The Tenant Placement (Leasing) Fee

The Joseph Group publishes a leasing fee of 100% of one month’s rent. SJA publishes leasing/onboarding at 60% of one month’s rent with a $1,850 minimum. At $2,300 rent, SJA’s minimum controls: 60% is $1,380, but the published fee is $1,850. Utopia waives placement on properties under full management. Confirm whether a leasing charge applies to a vacant placement or an occupied takeover.

Filling a vacancy requires care and effort — but time is money, and in the Puget Sound region a placement fee of half to a full month’s rent is the common structure. On an Everett house renting around $2,300, that is $1,150 to $2,300, which over a two-year tenancy is the equivalent of adding two to four percentage points to the monthly rate. Ask for the figure before you ask about anything else, and ask whether it is charged again on a renewal.

Renewal, Setup, and Maintenance Fees

The Joseph Group lists renewal at 3% of the new lease value, not 3% of one month’s rent. SJA lists renewal at 25% of one month’s rent, with a $500 minimum, and occupied-property setup at $385 for a single unit or $200 per multifamily unit. T-Square’s owner documents link a November 5, 2025 Fastrack maintenance schedule: T-Square-client handyman labor is $80/hour, one-hour minimum then half-hour increments, plus $60 per trip; materials are cost plus 20%, including tax. Cleaning is $50/hour, $100 minimum, with supplies and specified surcharges separate. This is contractor pricing, not management, leasing or renewal pricing. Sources checked September 30, 2026. Use the questions below to obtain the remaining property-specific terms and approval limits:

• The monthly management rate, and whether it runs on rent collected or rent scheduled.
• The tenant placement fee, and whether it is charged again at renewal.
• Lease renewal: what it costs, and whether it is charged at all.
• Setup or onboarding, and whether repair invoices carry a maintenance markup.

What Washington’s Rules Do to Your Costs

Two state-level rules shape an Everett owner’s year more than any fee schedule does. Washington now caps how much rent on a covered unit may rise in a twelve-month period, and the 2026 figure is 9.683%. And state law requires notice of an increase well in advance, which means a rent review is a planned exercise rather than a decision you make at renewal. Together those change what you should be buying from a manager. In a capped market the value is not in pushing rent — the ceiling does that arithmetic for you — it is in occupancy, turnover and keeping a good tenant through a capped increase. Ask a prospective manager for their average days on market and their renewal rate, and weigh those answers at least as heavily as the percentage, because avoiding one placement fee is worth more than a point on the monthly rate.

Flat Fee or Percentage?

TurboTenant now publishes an Everett flat-fee Fully Managed plan at $250 per month for the first unit and $100 for each additional unit. On a home collecting $2,500 monthly rent, that first-unit figure equals a 10% management charge before any applicable leasing, inspection or repair terms. Compare the written scope of each plan rather than using an old $150 illustration as though it were a current Everett quote. Source: the company’s Everett Autopilot page, checked October 2, 2026.

Habits That Cost Less Than Any Fee

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Before you even start, you need to plot your course. Developing a business plan will make it easier to not only achieve your goals, but realize them in the first place. Your real estate investment plan should cover every detail of your approach to owning and monetizing properties, including details about expected rental cash inflows, the desired number of rental properties needed to meet your financial goals, your plans for property management, and so on.

There is a commonly held belief that real estate is not only the safest investment, but that real estate investments are basically immune to loss. A professional, balanced real estate investor should understand that this is far from the truth. As with any investment field, real estate comes with real risk. Every decision you make, from purchasing new property to committing resources to the maintenance, management, and marketing of owned properties, should be made with awareness of the risk taken. All successful real estate players, ranging from small scale investors to those with diverse and expansive portfolios, maintain common habits that help them thrive in the often uncertain, often tricky, and sometimes catastrophic world of real estate.

Keeping the Cost Down

Budget an afternoon of phone calls and emails, because in this city every comparison starts with one. Send the same four questions to every firm on the same day and compare not just the answers but how long they take — when a company does not post a complete schedule, the firm that sends one promptly is telling you something useful about how it will handle everything else. Be wary of judging a company by its website alone here, in either direction: two of these sites carry unfinished pages, and that is a fact about their web presence rather than proof about their service. All fee agreements are negotiable, so before diving in, try negotiating the most affordable rate possible from the company that is number one on your list. For what a full-service arrangement includes here, see our Everett property management services, or compare providers side by side in the Everett rankings.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much does property management cost in Everett?

The Joseph Group lists 10% of collected rent, 100% of one month’s rent for leasing, and 3% of the new lease value for renewal. SJA lists 8.9% for single-family homes with a $235 per-unit monthly minimum, and 6.9% to 8.9% for multifamily with a $185 per-unit minimum. Utopia lists 8% to 10% and waives placement under full management. Compare the separate leasing, renewal, setup, and repair terms in the property proposal.

Do Everett property managers publish their fees?

Yes. The Joseph Group and SJA publish management, leasing, and renewal figures. TurboTenant publishes a separate flat-fee managed plan and placement-only offer. SJA also publishes occupied-property setup charges. Utopia publishes a management range. The other companies still need current proposals; an omitted amount is not assumed to be zero.

What is a typical tenant placement fee in Everett?

The Joseph Group publishes 100% of one month’s rent. SJA publishes leasing/onboarding at 60% of one month’s rent, with a $1,850 minimum. On a $2,300 rental, that minimum makes SJA’s charge $1,850 rather than $1,380. Utopia waives placement under full management. Confirm which charge applies to an occupied takeover.

How much can I raise the rent in Everett in 2026?

Washington caps increases on a covered unit at 9.683% in any twelve-month period for 2026. State law also requires advance notice of an increase, which makes a rent review a planned exercise rather than a renewal-day decision.

What should I ask an Everett property manager first?

Send the same four questions to every firm on the same day: the monthly rate and whether it runs on rent collected or scheduled, the placement fee and whether it recurs at renewal, the renewal fee, and whether repair invoices carry a maintenance markup. Compare the answers and how long they take to arrive.