Del Cerro property management. Best Nest manages houses and small buildings in Del Cerro and Allied Gardens. Intentionally small and owner-operated, flat $99 monthly plus 4.9% of collected rent, no fee while vacant. Current comps for 92120: two-bedrooms at a median of about $2,750, three-bedroom houses at $4,200.
The Del Cerro and Allied Gardens rental market right now
2-Bedroom
$2,750
Typical range $2,150–$3,200
3-Bedroom
$4,200
Del Cerro hillside prices above
Our current comp data · Rents reviewed quarterly
92120 pairs two adjacent markets: Allied Gardens’ 1950s tract homes and small buildings along Waring Road (two-bedroom comps at $2,750 on 64 samples, the deepest sample in east-central San Diego), and Del Cerro’s larger view homes above the 8, where three-bedroom comps run a $4,200 median and the hillside product prices above it. SDSU sits directly below Del Cerro, and the university’s gravity shapes demand on both sides of the zip.
What Del Cerro property management involves
The SDSU adjacency shapes everything, and disciplined screening is the answer: every application gets measured against the same written criteria, income, credit, rental history, and references, applied identically and documented every time. As a business line, we do not take on properties operated as student housing; the homes we manage here are conventional long-term rentals. Demand in Allied Gardens tracks the Lewis Middle and Patrick Henry school feeder, and Grantville’s new trolley-area supply next door pressures the zip’s older small units, so honest pricing wins there.
What owners here ask
What is the difference between renting in Del Cerro and Allied Gardens?
Del Cerro is view houses at $4,200 and up; Allied Gardens is tract homes and small buildings at friendlier numbers. Same school feeder, different products.
How do you handle SDSU-area screening?
The same written criteria every application gets, income, credit, rental history, references, applied identically and documented. Guarantor arrangements follow the same process.
What does a two-bedroom rent for?
Current comps: median about $2,750 on the deepest sample in east-central San Diego, band $2,150 to $3,200.
What does a 3 bedroom house rent for in Del Cerro?
As of July 2026, the median asking rent for a 3 bedroom house in Del Cerro is $4,198, with the middle half of the market between $3,970 and $4,668, based on 12 months of comps. Allied Gardens runs just under it, with a median of $4,125. Condition and layout decide where a specific home lands in that range. See the full neighborhood table.
Is a single family rental in Del Cerro subject to California’s rent cap?
Usually not. An individually owned single family home or condo is exempt from the state rent cap, currently 8.2 percent for San Diego County, but only when the lease includes the exemption notice required by Civil Code Section 1947.12. Without that written notice, the cap applies. Details in our guide to the single family exemption.
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Best Nest is intentionally small and owner-operated Del Cerro property management, licensed and local. See our flat-fee pricing, or review the California rental housing laws.