We are one of the companies on this page, and we are telling you that up front. Chase Calhoun Real Estate manages 150+ units across Central Arkansas. We wrote this because the guide currently ranking first for this search was written by a company with no presence in Little Rock, and you deserve a comparison from someone who actually works here.
How to read any property manager’s pricing
The monthly management percentage is the number everyone advertises and the number that matters least. What decides your actual annual cost is the stack underneath it:
- Leasing or placement fee, often a half or a full month’s rent, charged every time a unit turns.
- Renewal fee, charged to keep a tenant who was already going to stay.
- Inspection fees, annual or per visit.
- Vacancy handling. Whether you are billed while the unit is empty.
Two companies quoting 8% and 10% can easily land in the opposite order once the stack is included. Ask every company on this list for the all-in number on your specific property, and treat reluctance to give one as the answer.
Evernest
A national roll-up with a Little Rock office, and the most transparent pricing in this market. Their published schedule is 8% management, 50% of the first month’s rent as a placement fee, a $250 renewal fee and a $149 annual inspection. They run 14 area pages, a 50+ post blog and owner calculators, and they show a 4.4 star rating.
Strongest for: owners who want scale, published pricing and a process that works the same way in every city.
Worth weighing: the operation reads as a national brand rather than a local one, and their site does not tell you who owns the Little Rock business or what they own here themselves.
TurnKey Property Management
Positions on the line “Owners Are Also Investors.” It is the right claim to make in this market. As of this writing their site does not publish a portfolio, a property list or team bios to support it, so you would need to ask them directly what they own and operate.
Strongest for: owners who want a local firm and are willing to verify the investor claim in conversation.
Worth weighing: ask for specifics — door count, what they own personally, who manages your property day to day.
Chase Calhoun Real Estate (us)
We manage 150+ units across Central Arkansas at 95%+ occupancy, with vacancies typically filled in under 30 days. Roughly half of those doors we own ourselves. Chase Calhoun is a licensed Arkansas Principal Broker, and our ownership also controls Apex Professional Construction, a licensed, insured and bonded Arkansas general contractor.
Strongest for: owners of small multifamily and single-family rentals who want the person setting the rent to be someone who pays the consequences of setting it wrong, and who want turns and capex handled by a builder rather than brokered out.
Worth weighing: we are smaller than the national firms, we are not the right fit for a large institutional portfolio, and our headline management rate is not the lowest in this market. Here are our main fees anyway, which is more of them than anyone else on this page publishes. Ask us for the complete schedule and you will get it:
- Management: 10% of monthly gross collections, $100 minimum per leased unit. No management fee on a unit in any month it collects no rent.
- Leasing: half a month’s rent per new lease, $750 minimum.
- Renewal: $150 per renewed lease.
- Onboarding: $250 per already-occupied unit. Vacant units pay nothing at onboarding.
- Technology: $10 per leased unit per month, covering both portals, leasing tech and self-showing.
- Inspections: $100 each, only when you ask for one.
- Eviction: $850 flat for a standard uncontested eviction, including filing, court costs and attorney fees.
- Term: month to month, 30 days’ notice, no termination fee and no long-term commitment.
- 90-day money-back guarantee on management fees if you are not satisfied.
The two lines that actually separate us
At 10% we are two points above Evernest’s published 8%, and we are telling you that rather than burying it. Two things are worth setting against it.
We do not charge a management fee on a unit that did not collect rent. A percentage-of-collections fee with no floor on empty months means we only get paid when you do. A manager who is paid the same whether your unit is leased or vacant has one fewer reason to hurry.
And you can leave whenever you want. Month to month, 30 days, no termination fee, plus a 90-day money-back guarantee on management fees. If the 10% is not earning itself, the exit costs you nothing. Ask the other companies on this page what their termination clause says.
The national listicles
Several of the highest-ranking results for this search are written by out-of-state companies and content marketers with no Little Rock operation. They can tell you what a management agreement is. They cannot tell you which submarkets are actually leasing this quarter, what a turn really costs here, or how long the eviction process takes in Pulaski County.
Side by side, on published numbers
| Fee | Evernest (published) | CCRE (us) |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly management | 8% | 10%, none on a unit that collected no rent |
| Leasing / placement | 50% of first month | Half a month, $750 min |
| Lease renewal | $250 | $150 |
| Inspections | $149 annually | $100, only on request |
| Technology fee | Not stated | $10 per leased unit / month |
| Termination | Not stated | 30 days, no fee, 90-day guarantee |
We are cheaper on renewals and inspections, more expensive on the monthly rate, and the only one of the two publishing a termination clause, a technology fee or a guarantee. Judge the whole column, not the first row. Neither schedule is exhaustive, so ask whoever you hire for a full written fee schedule before you sign.
The one thing none of us publishes
We looked at every property management site in this market while writing this. Not one publishes a local door count. Not Evernest, not TurnKey, not the listicles. It is the single most useful number for judging whether a company can actually run your property, and it is the one number the industry has agreed not to say.
Ours is 150+. Ask everyone else for theirs, and notice who answers.
Five questions worth asking all of us
- How many doors do you manage in Central Arkansas right now?
- What is your current occupancy rate, and your average days on market for a vacant unit?
- Can I see your complete written fee schedule, including anything not listed on your website?
- Who personally handles my property, and how many others do they handle?
- What do you own yourself in this market?
Any manager worth hiring will answer all five without hesitating.
If you want our read on your property
Send us the address. We will give you a rent number based on what comparable units are actually leasing for, not what a portal estimates, along with what we would expect to spend making it rent-ready. No obligation and no pitch. Call 501-902-8242.
