DuPont, WA Property Management
DuPont is the most base dependent rental market in Pierce County. Leases here move on orders, not on the calendar. If your manager does not run the PCS cycle on purpose, you will feel it in your vacancy.
DuPont runs on Joint Base Lewis-McChord
DuPont sits directly on Interstate 5 at the southwest edge of Joint Base Lewis-McChord, with 10,151 residents at the 2020 Census. Almost every other market in the county has several demand drivers. DuPont has one dominant one, and that single fact changes how the whole property is run.
Leases move on orders, not on school years
Permanent change of station moves cluster heavily in late spring and summer, with a second wave through the fall. A lease ending in June or July lands in the deepest applicant pool of the year. One ending in January lands in the thinnest. We set lease end dates deliberately to stay inside the PCS window.
Military households have federal rights that override your lease
Under the federal Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, a servicemember with qualifying permanent change of station or deployment orders may terminate a residential lease early by following the Act’s notice procedure. That is not negotiable, and it is not a sign of a bad tenant. It is a normal cost of owning near a base, and it is what our Leasing Guarantee is for: if a tenant does not fulfill at least nine months of the lease, we find you a new tenant free. See JBLM and military property management for SCRA, BAH and military screening in full.
Confirm with Red Roof’s broker that the SCRA summary above matches the language used in the Red Roof lease, and that the military page carries the notice mechanics in full.
Housing allowance sets a soft price ceiling
Many DuPont applicants budget against a Basic Allowance for Housing rate rather than a percentage of gross pay. That produces sharp clustering just under certain price points and very little demand above them, so pricing $75 over a common threshold can cost you a month of vacancy. We do not publish allowance figures here, because they change annually and by rank and dependency status.
What DuPont rents and sells for
Sales. The median sale price in DuPont was $575,437 over the three months ending June 2026, up 3.2% year over year, with a median 13 days on market and an average of two offers per home. Source: Redfin, June 2026. The Pierce County median over the same period was $598,312. Source: Redfin, June 2026.
Hold those two facts together. DuPont home prices sit slightly below the Pierce County median, while DuPont rents run far above the Tacoma average of $1,718 reported by Zillow in August 2026 and the Pierce County median gross rent of $1,806 from the Census ACS 2020 to 2024 estimates. Moderate prices with high rents is an unusual combination, and it is why so many people stationed at JBLM buy a DuPont house, move on, and keep it as a rental. If that is you, you are our typical DuPont client.
| DuPont rent | Amount | Average size |
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| All apartments | $2,509 | 926 sq ft |
| 1 bedroom | $2,227 | 724 sq ft |
| 2 bedroom | $2,760 | 1,061 sq ft |
Source: RentCafe, using Yardi Matrix data, DuPont WA, August 3, 2026. No year over year figure was published for DuPont in that release. Yardi tracks buildings of roughly 50 units and up, so this is an apartment picture. Northwest Landing houses lease on their own comparables.
Our services
Property management services in DuPont, WA.
Right next to JBLM, DuPont rentals move fast. Pick a service to see how our team keeps your home rented and cared for.
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Property Management Services
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Property Management Fees
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Rental Property Marketing
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Tenant Screening
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Rent Collection
Online payments and follow-up so you get paid.
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Eviction Protection
A plan for the worst case, backed by local know-how.
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Maintenance & Inspections
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Lease Renewals & Retention
Keep good residents longer and cut turnover costs.
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Owner Financial Reporting
Monthly statements and year-end reports online.
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Single Family Management
Hands-on care for houses, from one home to many.
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Multi Family Management
Duplexes to apartment buildings, kept full and running.
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Out-of-State Owner Management
Your local team on the ground while you live elsewhere.
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Talk to our DuPont team.
DuPont sits right next to JBLM, and many of our renters here are military families and commuters. Whether you own a rental, live in one of our homes, or need a place in DuPont, our local team can help.
- Built for military moves. We work with families moving to and from JBLM and keep turnovers quick.
- A real person reads every message. No bots, just our local team.
- Quick replies. Most messages get a response within one business day.
- No pressure. Property owners can ask questions with no obligation.
Northwest Landing and the rest of the city
Most of what people mean by DuPont is Northwest Landing, the master planned community Weyerhaeuser developed on the site of the former explosives plant it purchased in 1975, built on a New Urbanism model with trails and greenbelts running through the subdivisions. That design matters for leasing in ways that are easy to miss:
Homes are close together and yards are modest. Curb appeal photographs well, and deferred exterior maintenance stands out immediately because the neighbors’ homes do not have it.
Trails and greenbelts are a selling feature. So is the Sequalitchew Creek Trail, which follows an old narrow gauge railway roadbed down to Sequalitchew Beach on Puget Sound. Naming it in the listing works better than the word “amenities.”
HOAs are common. We collect the covenants at onboarding, put the resident facing rules in the lease and hand the resident a copy at move-in.
The rest of DuPont matters too. The DuPont Village Historic District has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1987.
DuPont is served by the Steilacoom Historical School District, with Steilacoom High School as the comprehensive high school. That surprises owners who assume a DuPont address means a Lakewood district. We confirm the assigned schools for your address and put them in the listing.
DuPont has a rental license, and that makes it different
Here is the single most important compliance point on this page, and it is one that almost no competitor mentions.
The City of DuPont publishes a dedicated Rental Housing Business License page on its official website. That signals DuPont treats residential rental as a licensed business, which puts it in a different category from Bonney Lake, Sumner and the unincorporated county. We could not retrieve the page’s contents, so we will not print requirements or fees we have not read.
What we could confirm. DuPont requires a license for all businesses located in or conducting business within city limits, obtained as a city endorsement through the state Business Licensing Service. Origination is $75 and renewal is $75, with a $20 renewal for a home business. Non-resident businesses earning $4,000 or less are exempt, and 501(c) nonprofits pay $0. Source: Washington State Department of Revenue, DuPont city endorsement page.
Call the City of DuPont and confirm, on the record and in writing: whether every residential rental unit requires a rental housing business license, the per unit or per property fee, whether registration or inspection is required, the renewal cycle, and the code section that governs it. Replace this section with the City’s confirmed answer, plus the date of the call, before publishing. Do not publish an estimated fee.
Everything statewide applies as well: the rent cap under RCW 59.18.700 to .730, at 9.683% for 2026 and 10.0% for 2027; the 90 day increase notice under RCW 59.18.140; just cause eviction under RCW 59.18.650; the signed move-in checklist and 30 day itemized deposit return under RCW 59.18.260 and .280; the 24 hour, 72 hour and 10 day repair clocks under RCW 59.18.070; and source of income protection under RCW 59.18.255. See Washington landlord tenant law.
City code compliance is a $75 line item in our Gold Package. In DuPont, that line earns its keep.
DuPont property management questions
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DuPont apartments averaged $2,509 as of August 3, 2026, with one bedrooms at $2,227 and two bedrooms at $2,760, per RentCafe using Yardi Matrix data. That is well above the Tacoma average of $1,718 reported by Zillow in August 2026. Northwest Landing houses price on their own comparables.
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The City publishes a Rental Housing Business License page on its official website, which indicates DuPont licenses residential rental activity. We could not retrieve the page contents, so we will not print fees we have not read. DuPont’s general business license is $75 to originate and $75 to renew. Call the City to confirm what applies to your unit.
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Permanent change of station moves cluster in late spring and summer with a second wave in the fall, so a lease ending in June or July hits the deepest applicant pool of the year and one ending in January hits the thinnest. We set lease end dates to stay inside that window, and start renewal conversations early enough to know which way a household is heading.
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Under the federal Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, a servicemember with qualifying PCS or deployment orders may terminate a lease early by following the Act’s notice procedure, and that right overrides the lease term. Our Leasing Guarantee covers the gap: if a tenant does not fulfill at least nine months, we find you a new tenant free.
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DuPont is served by the Steilacoom Historical School District, with Steilacoom High School as the comprehensive high school. That surprises owners who assume a DuPont address means a Lakewood or Clover Park school. We verify the assigned schools for your address and name them in the listing.
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Yes, and that is our most common DuPont engagement. You get owner portal access, monthly statements, ACH direct deposit wherever you are stationed, local maintenance vendors, and a team in the Tacoma office. Under our Results Guarantee you pay no leasing fee until a qualified tenant is placed.
Getting orders? Let’s talk before you list
Keeping the house or leasing it for the first time, we will price it against real DuPont comparables, set the lease dates to the PCS window and confirm what the City requires. Free, no obligation.