Greater Boston property management
Own the property. Skip the part where you run it.
Livo Properties manages condos, single-family homes and multi-family rentals in Newton and across Greater Boston — pricing and leasing, screening, rent collection, maintenance and the compliance work most owners find out about too late.
Your building, managed
One team · One itemised monthly statement
- Rent collected
- Repairs handled
- Statement sent
- Compliance on file
- Newton
- Waltham
- Watertown
- Wellesley
- Needham
- Weston
- Brookline
- Boston
- Cambridge
- Somerville
- Medford
- Malden
- Everett
- Quincy
- Focus
- Condos, single & multi-family
- Region
- Greater Boston
- Fees
- Quoted in writing
- Commitment
- 12-month agreement
What Livo Properties does
Livo Properties is a residential property management company working in Newton, the towns that border it, and across Greater Boston. We manage any residential rental — a condo unit, a single-family house, or a two-, three- or four-family building — for owners who want the rental income without running the operation themselves, on a 12-month management agreement.
That means setting the rent off comparable leased units rather than guesswork, marketing and showing the property, screening applicants against written criteria, executing a compliant Massachusetts lease, collecting rent, coordinating maintenance, and keeping the property in front of its registration, inspection and deposit obligations. You get an itemised statement every month and a call the day anything material happens.
Where owners lose money, and what we do about it
Vacancy
A unit priced by feel, or marketed a month late, sits. Four weeks of vacancy costs more than a year of management fees.
Pricing from comparable leased rents, and a marketing calendar set months ahead of the September cycle.
The wrong tenant
One bad tenancy can undo several good years — in unpaid rent, in damage, and in the length of a Massachusetts eviction.
Written screening criteria applied identically to every applicant, with the prior landlord called as well as the current one.
Paperwork
Deposit handling, disclosures and municipal registration carry statutory penalties well beyond the sums involved.
Compliance handled and documented from day one, rather than reconstructed when someone asks.
What we manage
Every kind of residential rental, each handled the way that kind of building actually needs.
Condos
A rented condo has two sets of rules: the lease between you and the tenant, and the condominium documents between you and the association.
Renting out a condo unitSingle-family homes
A single-family rental is often a house its owner used to live in, rented out because a job or a family moved them rather than as an investment.
Managing a single-family home as a rentalMulti-family
Greater Boston is a two- and three-family region, and a small multifamily building is not a single-family house with more doors.
Managing two-, three- and four-family properties
Services
Tenant placement
Tenant placement is a one-time service: we price the unit, market it, run the showings, screen the applicants, and put a compliant lease in place — then hand you the keys and the file.
Read moreTenant screening
Every applicant is measured against the same written criteria, in the same order, and the criteria are published rather than improvised.
Read moreRent collection & accounting
Rent is collected electronically on a fixed schedule, owner funds are disbursed on a stated date each month, and the statement shows every dollar in and out with the invoice behind it.
Read moreMaintenance & repairs
Tenants report issues in writing through one channel, every request is triaged the day it arrives, and work under an agreed threshold proceeds without waiting on you.
Read moreCompliance & inspections
Most of what goes badly wrong for a rental owner in Massachusetts is not a bad tenant.
Read more
Newton and the towns around it
We concentrate on Newton and the towns that border it, and manage across Greater Boston. Each guide covers the housing stock, neighborhoods, who rents there, and what makes the place different to operate in.
Property management in Newton
Thirteen villages rather than one city, with a rental market of single-family homes, two-families and condos let largely to families and relocating professionals.
Newton guide
Property management in Waltham
A former mill city on the Charles with two universities, a substantial life-sciences employment base along 128, and a genuinely mixed rental market.
Waltham guide
Property management in Watertown
A dense small city on the Charles between Newton and Cambridge, with a large stock of two-family houses and a life-sciences employment base growing along Arsenal Street.
Watertown guide
Property management in Wellesley
A town of villages and colleges on Newton’s western border, where most rentals are whole single-family houses and the commuter rail runs through the middle of town.
Wellesley guide
Property management in Needham
A residential town on Newton’s southwestern border, made up mostly of single-family homes, with its own commuter rail line and a business district along Route 128.
Needham guide
Property management in Weston
The least dense of the towns bordering Newton — large lots, protected open space and almost entirely single-family homes, where a rental is usually a whole house.
Weston guidePhotographs taken in each city, from Wikimedia Commons; credits are on each city’s guide.
All 14 area guidesWho runs Livo
Maggie Li
Principal
Leads owner relationships and leasing at Livo Properties, from the first rental analysis through renewal.
Kevin Hoang
Operations
Runs operations at Livo Properties — screening, maintenance coordination and compliance.
Jake Goodman
Administrator
Handles the administration at Livo Properties — finances, owner accounting and troubleshooting — so Maggie and Kevin’s time goes to the properties.
Get a written quote for your property
A short conversation, then every fee that would apply, in writing. No obligation to get it. Clients start with a full rental analysis — what the unit should ask, what it needs first, and how quickly it is likely to lease.