The rental desk
We manage a small number of homes, twelve right now, for owners who want them rented fairly and kept up properly. When one comes open, it's listed here first.
Available Nov 1Lockkeeper Street, Rondout, Kingston
2 bd · 1 ba · 950 sq ft · 2nd floor
A bright second-floor apartment in an 1880s brick row house, two blocks up from the waterfront. Heat and hot water included. Shared laundry in the basement. Cats welcome; dogs under 40 lbs considered. 12-month lease.
Available nowMain Street, east end, Beacon
1 bd · 1 ba · 720 sq ft · 3rd floor walk-up
Top-floor apartment above a gallery, with a bay window over Main Street and a view of the mountain from the kitchen. Tenant pays electric and gas. Washer and dryer in the unit. No parking; the train is a 20-minute walk or a short bike ride. 12-month lease.
Available Dec 1Pine Kiln Lane, Saugerties
3 bd · 1.5 ba · 1,400 sq ft · 0.4 ac
A 1950s cape on a quiet street a mile from the village, with a fenced yard, a one-car garage and a renovated kitchen. Tenant pays utilities, including heating oil; owner handles lawn care. Pets considered. 12- or 24-month lease.
Exact addresses are shared when we schedule a showing. Rents and availability as of October 14.
We try to make this simple, fast and the same for everybody. These are the steps, in order, for every applicant and every unit.
Request a showing with the form below or call the Kingston office. Hollis or a colleague will meet you there. We show in person or by live video if you're out of town.
One application per adult who will live in the home. We ask for ID, current address and landlord contact, and proof of income: pay stubs, an offer letter, benefits or a housing voucher. We accept all lawful sources of income, as New York law requires.
The fee is $20 per application, the most New York allows, and we waive it if you give us a copy of a background or credit check from the last 30 days. We'll tell you the result either way, and if we decline an application, we'll tell you why in writing.
Once approved, you'll get the lease to review. You'll pay the first month's rent and a security deposit of no more than one month's rent, held in a New York bank account, with the bank name in your lease. We do a walk-through with you before you move in and again when you leave, with photos, so the deposit conversation at the end is short.
We don't charge tenants a broker's fee for any home we manage.
Rent is paid online or by check, your choice. Maintenance requests go to one email address and one phone number, and they get answered by a person, usually the same day. Real emergencies (no heat in January, water coming through a ceiling) get a call back within the hour, nights and weekends included. We use local plumbers, electricians and handymen we've worked with for years, and we give 24 hours' notice before anyone comes in for non-emergency work.
We'd like you to stay. Most of our tenants renew, and we tell you about a renewal and any rent change at least 90 days before your lease ends if you've been there more than two years, as the law requires, and usually sooner.
Our rental desk started in 2014, when a few clients who'd bought two-family houses in Kingston asked us to help find tenants. It's still small on purpose. Hollis Greer runs it with one part-time coordinator, and we only take on homes within about 30 minutes of one of our offices, so we can get there quickly.
Here's what we do for owners:
Our management fee is a percentage of the rent we collect, plus a leasing fee when we place a new tenant. We'll go over both, and what's included, when we come see the property. We'd rather manage a house well than manage a lot of them.
Hollis has managed our Rondout two-family for six years. I live in Philadelphia and have been inside the building twice in that time. That's the point.
— An owner, Kingston, 2025
Fieldstone & Finch Realty is an Equal Housing Opportunity provider. We accept all lawful sources of income. Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed.
