Partner With Home Street Serviced Apartments

Home Street Serviced Apartments is a corporate housing operator. When a guest needs a fully furnished apartment for 30 days or more, we find them the right home, handle the paperwork, pay the rent, and stand behind the stay. We do not own most of the apartments we place guests in — we lease them from property managers like you.

If you’ve ever turned away a relocating executive, an insurance-displaced family, a traveling professional, or a project-based contractor because your leasing office isn’t built for short-term stays, this page is for you. Here’s what working with us looks like, and why a growing number of property managers in our markets keep us on as a standing partner.

You Capture Revenue That Would Otherwise Walk Away

Every property manager fields calls from prospects who don’t fit the standard 12-month lease — an employee on a six-month assignment, a family waiting on a closing, a traveling nurse between contracts, an insurance adjuster working a storm. The usual answer is a polite “we can’t help you.” That prospect then ends up at a hotel, a short-term rental, or a competitor’s property.

Send them to us instead. We’ll do our best to place them in your community first — the goal is to fill your unit, not to steal your prospect. If your corporate policy allows, we also offer a referral program for property managers who send leads our way. Either way, revenue that would have left your portfolio stays in it.

We Carry the Risk on the Stay

When we lease a unit from you, the lease is ours. That has real, practical consequences for your team:

• Rent is guaranteed and on schedule, regardless of the guest. If a guest pays us late, doesn’t pay us at all, or breaks their reservation early, you still get paid on time. Collections are our problem, not yours.
• We are responsible for damages beyond normal wear. If a guest causes damage, you bill us. We recover from the guest or from our insurance. Your maintenance team doesn’t chase anyone.
• We enforce the community’s rules. Quiet hours, pet policy, pool rules, parking, guest limits, smoking — we communicate them up front, document them at move-in, and handle the conversation if a guest strays. If a guest has to go, that’s our call to make and our job to carry out.

In the data on multifamily risk, unpaid rent and property damage sit at the top of the list of owner concerns. A corporate lease moves both to a third-party operator with the staff and insurance to absorb them.

Your Short-Term Guest Can Become a Long-Term Resident

A meaningful share of our guests are in your market because they’re moving there — a job transfer, a relocation, or a personal move that hasn’t closed on a home yet. They are actively shopping for long-term housing while they stay with us. If they fall in love with your property during their temporary stay, the natural next step is a direct lease with you when our stay ends.

When that conversion happens, we do not ask for a commission or a referral fee. We don’t treat your future residents as leads we’re entitled to a cut of. We want to work with property managers who want to work with us, and the best way to prove that is to let you keep the resident. A happy long-term lease is worth far more to both of us than a one-time fee.

We Actively Market Your Property to Corporate Decision-Makers

Corporate housing demand comes from HR and relocation teams, project managers at engineering and construction firms, medical staffing coordinators, insurance claims departments, and government/GSA travelers. When we take on a unit at your property, we surface it to those buyers — people who do not walk into a leasing office and who don’t find your community through a standard apartment search.

That’s incremental exposure to the kind of decision-maker who books multiple units a year across multiple markets, not a single apartment. Some of those relationships eventually outgrow us and turn into direct corporate accounts for you.

We Come Back to Properties That Work

When a property is a good fit — responsive management, clean turnovers, fair terms, solid location — it becomes our first call for every new request in that submarket. That means less lease-up effort on recurring units, a predictable name on your rent roll, and a real pipeline rather than one-off leases that end and disappear.

Short-Term Lease on Paper, Long-Term Intent in Practice

We typically ask for short-term leases — often three to six months — to manage our own occupancy risk. That’s not our ceiling, it’s our floor. Our intent is always to keep the unit as long as we can keep it full, and when demand in a submarket is steady, we renew and extend. Many of the apartments in our portfolio have been with us for years under rolling renewals.

A short-term lease structure combined with long-term occupancy behavior is hard to find from any other single tenant type.

We Become the Filter for Guest Communication

Our company started as an offshoot of a property management company. We know what it’s like to have a resident call the front office about a lightbulb, a TV remote, or a package they forgot to pick up. We built our operations to absorb that noise on your behalf.

• All guest communication comes through us first. Requests that aren’t property-related — extra towels, Wi-Fi passwords, housekeeping, check-out logistics — never touch your team.
• Work orders are pre-triaged. Before we send a maintenance request to your office, our team has already confirmed the issue is real, ruled out user error, and gathered the details your technician will need. You’re not dispatching someone to reset a GFCI or explain how the dishwasher works.
• We document and escalate in the format you already use. Photos, timestamps, unit numbers, and a clear description — submitted through whatever system your team prefers.

Steadier Occupancy and Stronger Per-Unit Revenue

Across the corporate housing industry, professionally managed units typically run in the 90–95% occupancy range over the course of a year. For property managers, that smooths out the vacancy losses that show up during lease-up, seasonal soft spots, or unit types that are slower to absorb on the conventional market.

Furnished, corporate-leased units also command a premium over unfurnished market rents — the delta varies by market and unit type, but it is consistently meaningful. For properties in initial lease-up, mid-lease stabilization, or submarkets with a slow conventional leasing season, a corporate-housing allocation is a practical hedge.

Insurance, Screening, and Professional Standards

We carry commercial general liability insurance and require guests to be covered for personal liability during their stay. Guests are vetted before move-in — identity verification, employer or sponsor confirmation for corporate bookings, and payment verification. Move-in and move-out inspections are documented with photos, and any discrepancies are resolved in writing, not in phone arguments.

Your long-term residents share walls with our guests. We treat that as a standard we have to meet, not a line we try to walk.

How a Partnership Usually Starts

Most new relationships begin with a single unit. We tour the property, confirm pricing and term, sign a standard corporate lease on your paper (or a short addendum to your form lease), and furnish the unit within a few days. From there, we place our first guest and the relationship grows — or doesn’t — based on how well we serve both your community and our customer.

We don’t need exclusivity, a block of units, or a long commitment to get started. One apartment is a perfectly good test.