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I signed a lease for a place that a client wants to sell. We are new to the city and need a base where we can look for a place to buy and take our time. So we agreed on a 60 day notice clause for both parties.
Included was that the agent can show the place with 24 hours notice.
So we moved in Friday. And he shows the unit Friday.
Come Monday he asks to show the unit Wednesday morning.
Now he wants to show it Wednesday afternoon.
WTF? Three showing requests in three business days!
OK, the contract says he can show it with 24 hours notice. But my wife has a night shift Tuesday and Wednesday. In order for her to get 8 hours sleep I'm going to have to rent a hotel room.
On our 4th day there!
Is there any reasonableness to the 24 hour notice? Or can he just show it all day every day?
Instead of ranting why not try talking to your LL? Tell them about your sleep schedule and that those days really don't work for you. See what the LL says.
Now if the LL says too bad and doesn't care, then you can go down another path.
If your landlord has the house on the market, 24 hours notice is already making it seem "hard to show". To limit the number of days that it can be shown is going to likely be the death knell to any offer any time soon, as buyers are also under constraints (often in town only for a day or two to look at homes) and will simply mark it off their list of possibles if it can't be seen the days they are there, or simply because it's hard to see it even if they live in town.
I just had a buyer choose one home over another and while they did get to see the house that had a tenant in it, the tenant made it difficult to schedule a showing and cancelled one that we'd given them several days' notice of after my clients had already left home and were on the long drive here from out of town. They're under contract on another house, right around the corner, occupied by the sellers who were very cooperative, in part because of that.
Think about if it were you trying to sell the house.
Now, it sounds like calling you on Monday to show it on Wednesday is almost 48 hours notice (if it isn't actually 48 hours, depending on when the call was and when he wants to show it), and that you agreed to the house being shown with 24 hours notice. What do you think is reasonable under the circumstances that putting too many restrictions is likely to result in the house not being sold?
Three showing requests in 3 business days was not my understanding of how this would work.
For Wednesday my wife won’t be able to occupy the apartment for more than 5 hours at a time.
yeah, its a rant.
and I gave him no options.
I figured if I posted on this forum the posters would have the real estate agents view. So what is reasonable?
Setting aside certain windows?
Saturday from 1-5, Tuesday and Thursday from 10-4.
Some tenants will agree to set up prescheduled showing times. So you could ask them for no showings on Wednesdays and Thursday workdays, evenings ok, etc. You might just want to tell the landlord that your wife sleeps days on those days, and it would be creepy to be showing the unit while she is sleeping in bed.
You made an agreement without thinking through the consequences of it. That happens, but just explain the problem and see what you can work out.
Standard rent clauses for that area have 24 hour notice. Didnt think anything of it or think it through.
The only thing that bugged me is when he said that he was showing them another unit in the building and wanted to show them mine while they are there.
I kind of assumed he would only be showing it to people asking to see it. Yes, I know that the client rarely knows exactly what he wants and the more units you show him the better the chance of him making a sale.
I didnt think it out. The guy said that they will still have it on the market.
But I think there needs to be some balance between the two partys.
I may end up getting my wife a hotel room for that day so she can sleep 8 hours.
I signed a lease for a place that a client wants to sell. We are new to the city and need a base where we can look for a place to buy and take our time. So we agreed on a 60 day notice clause for both parties.
Included was that the agent can show the place with 24 hours notice.
So we moved in Friday. And he shows the unit Friday.
Come Monday he asks to show the unit Wednesday morning.
Now he wants to show it Wednesday afternoon.
WTF? Three showing requests in three business days!
OK, the contract says he can show it with 24 hours notice. But my wife has a night shift Tuesday and Wednesday. In order for her to get 8 hours sleep I'm going to have to rent a hotel room.
On our 4th day there!
Is there any reasonableness to the 24 hour notice? Or can he just show it all day every day?
Wifie is an ER doc and is doing the 6pm to 6am shift. She has three in a row and it's brutal and exhausting.
The consequences of her making a sleep deprived mistake are higher than me as a desk jocky
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