Montlake Property Management for Pre-1940 Homes and Condo Boards

Montlake property management services

• Rental property management: for houses, townhouses, condo units, duplexes to fourplexes and multifamily buildings. Our team screens tenants, prepares and renews leases with e-signing, collects rent with automated reminders and arranges repairs through our vendor network. You can check live income and expense data in your owner portal, and you receive monthly statements and year-end 1099s.
• Tenant placement: for Montlake owners who will manage the home after move-in. We photograph and list it, show it to prospective tenants, check each applicant's credit, income and rental history, then draft the lease.
• Condominium and HOA management: for high-rise and mid-rise condominiums, single-building associations and townhome communities. We provide financial management with board-ready budgets and monthly reports, routine walk-throughs, local vendors whose insurance certificates and licenses we check, and meeting preparation and minutes. Your board keeps the final say.

What Montlake owners should know

• Many homes predate 1940. About 49% of homes in tracts 61 and 62, which form the area, were built before 1940, about twice Seattle's 23% (Census table B25034).
• Houses and larger buildings sit side by side. About 47% of homes are detached houses, while roughly 39% sit in buildings with five or more units, and about a quarter are in buildings of 20 units or more (Census table B25024). We added up the two tracts' 2020 to 2024 American Community Survey figures ourselves.
• The SR 520 rebuild here is finished. WSDOT lists its SR 520 Montlake Project as complete. It added a new eastbound bridge over Union Bay, a three-acre lid over the highway in Montlake with regional transit stops and green space, and a bicycle and pedestrian bridge east of the lid.
• Light rail is just north of the area. University of Washington Station, with bus stops at NE Pacific St and Montlake Blvd NE, opened in March 2016, and today trains on both Link lines, the 1 and the 2, stop there.

Questions Montlake owners ask

I'm relocating for a few years. Can a Montlake property manager look after my house while I'm away?

Yes. We manage single-family houses as well as condos and apartment buildings. While you are away, rent reaches your bank account by direct deposit, a statement comes each month, and the owner portal lets you check income and expenses whenever you like.

Do you manage condo buildings in Montlake, or only houses?

Both. About four in ten homes here are in buildings of five or more units, whether apartments or condominiums. Our condo and HOA management in Montlake covers high-rise and mid-rise condominiums as well as single-building associations. We assign a dedicated manager to each association and give owners an AppFolio portal where they pay dues, open documents and send maintenance requests. We also offer reserve study coordination with licensed specialists.

What are the common challenges in Montlake rental management?

Age is the main one. About half of the area's homes were built before 1940, and an older house benefits from regular checks, so our move-in, move-out and periodic inspections are documented with photos and meant to catch small issues before they become expensive ones. Between tenants, we handle the listing and screening; during a tenancy, renewals are done end to end with e-signing.

Our Montlake condo building has 20 or more units. What should the board look for in a management company?

Start with how the budget is built and how work on the building is handled. Ask who prepares the budget, how contractor bids are compared and who walks the property. We prepare board-ready budgets, review contractor bids and walk the building routinely, documenting its condition and flagging issues before they escalate, and the board makes the decisions.

Other Central Seattle areas we serve

• Capitol Hill
• Leschi
• Madison Valley
• Eastlake

What a Seattle-based team handles for you

We take care of tenants, maintenance, compliance and reporting, so the day-to-day work stays off your list. You get a direct line to a person rather than a ticket system, and our licensed brokers and property managers are in-house, with 40 years of local experience behind them.

Buying or selling in Montlake

Our licensed agents walk sellers through every step from pricing to close, with marketing on the NWMLS, Zillow and Redfin. Buyers looking in the neighborhood get full representation. Learn more on our selling your property and buying real estate pages.

Ask about Montlake property management

Tell us about your house or your association's building and what you need from a manager. Reach us at (206) 283-6000 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., or send a message through our contact page. Quorum's office is at 3227 NE 125th St, Seattle, WA 98125.

Locally owned and based in Seattle, Quorum has been serving the Greater Seattle area since 1985 and belongs to the Community Associations Institute, the Rental Housing Association of Washington and the Washington Landlord Association.