Preferred management partner · East Village, Belleville
KEILTY is the preferred property management partner for East Village. If you are buying one of the 29 townhomes on Herchimer Avenue to rent out, we take care of the leasing, the residents and the day-to-day — and we start before you close, so the home is not sitting empty after handover.
East Village is 29 new townhomes on Herchimer Avenue in Belleville, built by Brauer Homes — a family-run Ontario builder since 1990, registered with Tarion and the HCRA.
You deal with a named property manager who knows the community, the builder's handover process and your specific home — not a rotating call centre.
We work alongside your closing so pre-delivery inspection items, utilities, Tarion registration and appliance warranties are handled in the right order.
Screening, lease terms and maintenance response are handled the same way for every home we manage here, which protects the street you have bought into.
Why owners here choose KEILTY
New builds come with warranty windows, deficiency lists, unfinished landscaping and a first resident who sets the tone for years. A freehold townhome adds a second layer: there is no condo corporation, so every bit of upkeep has to land on someone in writing. We manage that as its own checklist.
Marketing, floor plans and showings can be lined up ahead of your closing date, so the home is not carrying costs while it waits for a first resident.
We document the pre-delivery inspection, log deficiencies with photographs, and file the Tarion forms inside their windows — Initial, Mid-Year, Year-End, Second-Year — rather than after they close.
Credit, employment and income verification, previous landlord references, and identity checks. You see the file and you approve the resident before anyone signs.
No condo corporation is cutting the grass or clearing the driveway here. Snow, lawn, the deck, the garden boxes and any Brauer pod get written into the lease so nobody is guessing in February.
Twenty-nine homes on one street can close within weeks of each other. We stagger listings and terms across the homes we manage here so East Village owners are not undercutting each other for the same resident.
Core management is a flat monthly rate per unit rather than a percentage, so the fee does not rise every time your rent does. Monthly statements and a year-end summary come standard.
Full scope of service and the complete fee schedule are on our single-family rental page.
The pre-closing lease-up plan
The most expensive weeks of a new rental home are the ones between closing and the first lease. Here is how we compress them.
We review your floor plan, finishes, basement option and block position, compare it against what is actually leasing in Belleville, Quinte West and Trenton, and give you a rent range in writing along with the lease terms we would recommend.
Copy, floor plan graphics and builder renderings go up as a pre-construction listing across the major rental portals. Enquiries are answered and pre-screened by our leasing team, not left in an inbox.
You receive screened applications with full files. You choose. We prepare the Ontario standard lease with the freehold townhome schedules, collect first and last month's rent, and set the move-in date around your closing.
We attend or coordinate the pre-delivery inspection, photograph the home in its new condition, register the Tarion warranty and the appliances, and set up the utility transfers in the right name on the right date.
Move-in inspection with photos, resident onboarding into the portal, first rent collected by pre-authorized debit, and a follow-up walk-through to catch anything the builder still owes.
For East Village owners
Three things we do for homes in this community that we do not do everywhere.
Our one-time onboarding fee is waived for East Village homes. You start with management and leasing only.
The coming-soon listing, photography plan and enquiry handling before your closing date are included, not billed as a separate leasing campaign.
Send us your lot and floor plan and you get a written rent range and leasing plan back within one business day. No obligation, nothing to sign.
Available to East Village purchasers who sign a KEILTY management agreement before their closing date. Core management and resident placement fees still apply — the full fee schedule is published on our single-family rental page.
Before the first resident moves in
Belleville
East Village sits on the east side of Belleville, three minutes from the hospital, six from downtown and close to the 401 and the VIA station. A new three-bedroom townhome with a garage and a yard, in that spot, draws a fairly predictable set of enquiries.
Belleville General is a few minutes up the road. Nurses, physicians, locums and allied health staff move here on contracts and want something new, close to work and ready to live in.
CFB Trenton is a short drive west and Loyalist College brings staff and faculty into the area every year. These households usually arrive on a fixed date and need a home that is genuinely finished.
Local families who want a newer home with a driveway, a yard and schools nearby. With the basement option finished, the same home suits a multi-generational household — which is a longer-staying resident when the lease is set up for it.
Site plan and elevation courtesy of Brauer Homes. Lots, models and availability are subject to change — see the East Village community page for the current release. We also manage homes in Belleville, Quinte West, Trenton, Picton and Napanee.
Start here
One short form. No obligation, and nothing to sign to find out what your home should rent for.
Prefer to talk it through first? Book 15 minutes with A.J. Keilty, or call 613-545-3322.
Delivered within one business day. We never share your information.
Questions we get from East Village buyers
Yes, and it is usually the right move. We list the home as a coming-soon rental roughly 60 days before your closing date using the builder's floor plan and renderings, pre-screen the enquiries, and time the move-in around your handover. You approve the resident before any lease is signed.
Not among the homes we manage. We know the closing dates of the East Village homes on our books, so we stagger when listings go live and vary lease end dates rather than putting several near-identical townhomes on the market in the same week. It also spreads out future turnovers instead of stacking them into one month.
Whoever the lease says, which is why we settle it before the first resident moves in. For most East Village homes we recommend the resident handles day-to-day yard care and the owner carries a contracted snow service, so the driveway is cleared to a standard you can rely on. We arrange and oversee the contractor either way.
Core management for a single-family home or freehold townhome is a flat monthly rate per unit rather than a percentage of rent, so the fee does not rise every time your rent does. Resident placement is charged on success. The complete fee schedule, including renewals and maintenance coordination, is published on our single-family rental page, and your free rental evaluation includes a written quote for your home.
No. East Village owners are free to manage the home themselves or hire anyone they like. We are the manager Brauer Homes points buyers to because we already operate across this corridor, and the owner package here reflects that relationship.
We do, on your behalf. We document the pre-delivery inspection, log deficiencies with photos, and submit the Tarion forms inside their windows. You are copied on the correspondence and nothing gets spent beyond your approved limit without written approval.
It widens who the home suits — up to five bedrooms works for a larger or multi-generational household, which tends to stay longer. It also means more people in the home, so screening covers every adult occupant and the lease sets out occupancy and use for the lower level. We price the home on the finished layout, not the base plan.
We handle arrears follow-up, notices, Landlord and Tenant Board filings and hearing attendance as part of core management. You are kept informed at each step, and we tell you what the realistic timeline looks like rather than what you want to hear.
Call 613-545-3322 or email ClientCare@KEILTY.com.
KEILTY Realty Management · Head office in Kingston, Ontario · 22+ years managing Ontario rentals.
Ontario property management with published pricing, same-day answers, and no surprises. Since 2003.
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