MoveSmart Rentals

Institutional Lease-Up · Tempe, AZ

Institutional Lease-Up in Tempe

Full-service institutional lease-up for Tempe landlords. We list, market, show, screen, and sign your unit, syndicated to the MLS and 20 portals, with an 18-day average from listing to lease.

MLS + 20 portals · Broad listing exposure
18-day avg placement · Listing to signed lease
Compliant screening · Documented audit trail
No tenant, no fee18-day average to lease6-month replacement guaranteeCompliant with the RTA 2006

Why it matters

What goes wrong with institutional lease-up in Tempe alone

Institutional lease-up in Tempe fails in predictable ways. Here are the problems developers and asset managers run into during delivery, and how our model addresses each.

  • 01

    Carrying costs piling up during a slow lease-up

    Every week a delivered Tempe building sits under target, vacancy eats directly into your returns. We model absorption to your delivery schedule, size the leasing pipeline to hit it, and report velocity against target continuously so drift gets corrected before it costs you stabilization timeline. Our 18 day individual unit average keeps units moving at scale.

  • 02

    High volume leasing that produces fallout

    Signing leases fast is worthless if renters do not stay. Many lease-up teams hit headline numbers by lowering screening standards, then watch units re open. We screen every applicant to a consistent standard and back each placement with a 6 month replacement guarantee, so the leased number you see is a leased number that holds.

  • 03

    Leasing cost that does not scale with results

    Flat retainers and management style fees charge you whether units lease or not, which is brutal during a delivery when costs are already heavy. We charge $0 upfront and a one month of rent fee only on units we actually lease. Your leasing spend tracks your leasing results, unit for unit.

  • 04

    No real visibility into where the lease-up stands

    Capital partners need to see absorption against target, not a vague status update. We track every unit through its leasing lifecycle and report leads, tours, conversion, and net leased on a regular cadence with unit level detail, so you can intervene early and tie every fee to a specific signed lease.

  • 05

    One generic campaign across very different Tempe submarkets

    A building near the University District leases to a different renter than one in the Financial District, and a single positioning leaves velocity on the table. We set pricing, marketing, and showing strategy separately for each district so demand is matched correctly and units absorb at the speed the surrounding pool allows.

Self-managed vs MoveSmart

The same vacancy, two outcomes

Same Tempe unit, same week it goes vacant. The difference is who runs the lease-up.

Time to lease

Yourself

Weeks of solo showings and chasing replies

MoveSmart

18-day average, showings 7 days a week

List price

Yourself

Guesswork; overpricing costs a full month

MoveSmart

Priced to live comparables within 1 km

Exposure

Yourself

One or two free listing sites

MoveSmart

MLS + 20 rental portals

Screening

Yourself

A credit check and a gut feel

MoveSmart

Credit, income, employment, references, documented

The lease

Yourself

Generic template, compliance risk

MoveSmart

Ontario Standard Lease, e-signed and filed

Your cost

Yourself

$0 fee, but your time and vacancy risk

MoveSmart

One month’s rent, only when a tenant signs

If it falls through

Yourself

Start over and pay to re-list

MoveSmart

6-month replacement, no second fee

Market context

Lease-up for Tempe new construction

When a new building delivers in Tempe, every vacant unit is a carrying cost. Institutional lease-up exists to compress the window between certificate of occupancy and stabilization. MoveSmart is built specifically for that window. We take on the full leasing function for a new construction asset or a large block of newly available units and drive it to a leased target on a schedule you set. This is different from placing a single tenant in a single home. A lease-up means concurrent demand generation, high throughput screening, and a leasing pipeline wide enough to sign dozens of qualified renters per month without dropping quality. We work directly with developers and asset managers, not individual landlords, because the coordination, reporting, and pace required are entirely different. Our success fee structure keeps your interests and ours aligned: we earn one month of rent per placement, charge nothing upfront, and stand behind every signed tenant with a 6 month replacement guarantee. If a placed renter falls out inside that window, we replace them at no additional placement fee. You get a leased building. We get paid on results.

A Tempe rental staged and ready for showings — MoveSmart Rentals

What you get

How we run a Tempe lease-up campaign

Every Tempe lease-up starts with a delivery schedule and an absorption target. From there we build the campaign backward. First, we set pricing and positioning against live comparable inventory in your submarket so units are listed to move, not to sit. Second, we launch syndicated listings across the platforms Tempe renters actually search, paired with paid demand where volume requires it. Third, we run inbound leads through a fast, structured qualification process so showings are filled with renters who can actually sign. Fourth, we screen to a consistent standard: income verification, rental history, and background review applied evenly to every applicant. Fifth, we move qualified renters to signed lease quickly, holding to our 18 day average from listing to signature on individual units even while running at building scale. Throughout, leasing activity is tracked unit by unit so you always know what is leased, what is pending, and what is still open. The campaign adjusts weekly based on real traffic and conversion data, not assumptions, so pace stays on target through the full delivery.

Defensible & documented

Absorption, velocity, and time to stabilization

Absorption is the number we manage to. In a Tempe lease-up, the question is not whether the building leases but how fast, because every week of vacancy is real money against your pro forma. We model velocity against your delivery schedule and the depth of renter demand around the asset, then build a leasing pipeline sized to hit it. Velocity is a function of three things we control: how many qualified leads enter the funnel, how efficiently those leads convert to signed leases, and how cleanly we keep approved applicants from stalling. Our 18 day individual unit average and high throughput screening let us sign at volume without sacrificing tenant quality, which matters because a fast lease-up that produces fallout is not actually fast. The 6 month replacement guarantee protects your stabilization curve by keeping early placements in place. We report absorption progress against target continuously, so if velocity drifts in any week we adjust pricing, demand spend, or showing capacity before it costs you stabilization timeline. The goal is a leased building that holds, delivered on the schedule your capital partners expect.

Documented tenant screening for Tempe, AZ rentals — MoveSmart Rentals

We don't get paid until your Tempe unit is leased. That single line rewrites how a leasing file gets run.

The MoveSmart success-fee promise

Transparent pricing

Leasing fees in Tempe

No upfront cost and no monthly percentage, ever. You pay a one-time success fee equivalent to one month of contracted rent, due only when a qualified tenant signs the lease.

Leasing & tenant placement

One month rent

One-time success fee, billed only when a tenant signs. $0 upfront.

  • Professional photography and video
  • MLS and 20 portal syndication
  • Tenant screening and background checks
  • Showings and applicant management
  • Lease drafting, e-signing, and deposits
  • Move-in coordination and key handover
  • 6-month Tenant Replacement Guarantee

Optional add-ons

As needed

Layer on extra coverage when it fits the property.

  • Rent Protection, quoted by partner
  • Paid advertising, pass-through at cost
  • Institutional lease-up, custom RFP
  • GST/HST excluded; confirmed in writing first

Our promise

The MoveSmart Tenant Replacement Guarantee

If a tenant we place leaves within the first six months, we re-market and re-place the unit at no additional success fee. You are not paying twice for one vacancy.

  • First 6 months covered
  • No additional fee
  • Same screening standard

The detail

Everything that goes into institutional lease-up in Tempe

Pricing, marketing, screening, cost, and renewals, broken down so you know exactly what we do and why it works in this market.

01

Lease-up across the Tempe submarkets

Tempe is not one renter pool, and a lease-up tuned to the wrong submarket leaves velocity on the table. We position each campaign to the district the asset sits in. In the University District, demand skews toward students, young professionals, and roommate households, which means leasing cycles cluster around academic timing, individual room and shared unit interest runs high, and speed to showing matters because these renters move fast and compare aggressively. In the Warehouse District, the renter is more often the urban professional drawn to walkable, character driven space near nightlife and creative employers, so positioning leans on location, lifestyle, and unit design rather than price alone. In the Financial District, demand comes from employees and professionals tied to the office and commercial base, renters who value proximity to work and amenity quality and who reward a clean, efficient leasing process. We set pricing, marketing, and showing strategy separately for each, because the same building leases at very different speeds depending on whether the surrounding demand is matched correctly. One campaign, calibrated district by district.

02

On-site and virtual leasing teams

A Tempe lease-up needs leasing capacity that flexes with delivery pace, and we provide both on-site and virtual coverage to match. On-site, we staff a leasing presence at the asset during the periods that demand it, running scheduled and walk-in tours, hosting open house style leasing events, and converting in person traffic to signed applications on the spot. This matters most during peak delivery windows when foot traffic is high and renters expect to see space the same day they inquire. Virtually, we run the always on side of the funnel: responding to inbound leads within the windows that win renters, conducting video and self guided tour coordination, processing applications, and pushing approved applicants to signature without anyone needing to be physically present. The two work as one pipeline. A renter who books online is handed cleanly to an on-site tour, and an on-site visitor who needs to apply later is captured virtually so no lead is lost. This blended model lets us scale showing capacity up during heavy delivery weeks and run lean during slower stretches, keeping cost aligned to actual leasing volume.

03

Reporting and transparency at scale

At institutional scale, the leasing report is the product as much as the signed lease is. Asset managers and capital partners need to see exactly where a Tempe lease-up stands at any moment, and our reporting is built for that audience. We track every unit through its leasing lifecycle: available, marketed, showing, application in process, approved, and signed. You see leads generated, tour volume, application conversion, and net leased against target on a regular cadence, with the underlying detail available unit by unit. Because we report on real activity rather than projections, you can see early whether velocity is tracking to your stabilization timeline and intervene with us while there is still time to act. If a particular submarket positioning is underperforming, the data shows it before it becomes a pro forma problem. This level of visibility also makes our success fee model fully auditable: you can tie every placement fee to a specific signed lease we produced. No black box, no padded numbers. The same transparency carries into our replacement guarantee, where any fallout inside 6 months and its replacement is tracked openly against the original placement.

04

Arizona compliance across a full lease-up

Running a high volume lease-up means applying the law consistently across hundreds of applicants, and consistency is where compliance is won or lost. Residential tenancies in Tempe are governed by the Arizona Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, codified at A.R.S. Title 33 Chapter 10, which sets the framework for lease terms, disclosures, deposits, and the landlord tenant relationship. We build our leasing process to operate inside that framework at scale. Screening criteria are defined up front and applied evenly to every applicant, which protects you under fair housing requirements that do not bend just because volume is high. Lease documents, required disclosures, and deposit handling follow the same standard across every unit in the delivery, so a building leased in a single quarter carries clean, consistent paperwork rather than a patchwork. Because our role is leasing and tenant placement, we hand off cleanly to whoever manages the asset after move in. We do not collect rent or manage the property, so the operational compliance of ongoing tenancy stays with your management partner while the leasing side is delivered correctly from the first signature.

05

What institutional lease-up costs in Tempe

Our pricing is built to take risk off your pro forma during the most expensive phase of an asset's life. There is $0 upfront to engage us on a Tempe lease-up. We are paid a success fee equal to one month of rent for each unit we lease, and that fee is earned only on placements we actually deliver. If a unit does not lease, there is no fee for it. This structure means your leasing cost scales precisely with leasing results, which is exactly what an asset manager wants during a delivery when carrying costs are already heavy. Every placement is backed by our 6 month replacement guarantee: if a renter we placed leaves inside that window, we place a replacement without charging another placement fee, so you are not paying twice to fill the same unit. There are no management fees, no rent collection cut, and no ongoing charges, because we do leasing and tenant placement only. You pay for leased units, you pay once per unit, and you pay nothing until the lease is signed. For a building racing toward stabilization, that alignment is the entire point.

Choose Your Path

Two doors, one standard

Whether you own the property or are searching for your next home, MoveSmart Rentals runs the same disciplined playbook on both sides of the lease.

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01 / Owners

Hands-off leasing, brick by brick

For Property Owners

Full-service leasing and tenant placement with zero upfront cost. Strategic pricing, professional marketing, tenant qualification, lease execution, and a documented move-in - hands-off leasing from listing to keys.

  • 18-Day Avg Placement
  • Defensible Qualification
  • Rental Protection
  • MLS + 20+ platforms
  • Dedicated Leasing Advisor
  • Owner Portal
Zero upfrontOwner Services
Bright, professionally staged apartment interior
02 / Tenants

Verified listings, honest pricing

For Tenants

Find your next home from our pipeline of professionally listed rentals across Canada and the United States. Verified listings, transparent pricing, and a smooth application-to-move-in experience.

  • Verified Listings
  • Online Applications
  • Online Payments
  • Transparent Pricing
  • Responsive Leasing Team
  • Secure E-Sign
Zero upfrontBrowse rentals
Same team, both sides of the lease

Areas we serve

Local coverage across Tempe

A dedicated leasing page for each Tempe district, with rents, demand and lease times specific to that pocket of the city.

  • 01Tempe Terrace
  • 02Tempe Plaza
  • 03Tempe Junction

Beyond Tempe

Leasing across the region

The same leasing pipeline and standard runs across the surrounding cities. One point of contact for a portfolio spread across more than one market.

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Frequently Asked

Frequently asked questions

Yes. Institutional lease-up is a core service. We take on the full leasing function for newly delivered buildings or large blocks of units in Tempe and drive them to a leased target on your schedule. We work with developers and asset managers, not individual landlords, because the pace, reporting, and coordination required at that scale are entirely different from placing a single tenant.

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