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Assuming you have keys, it's simple. Tape a written notice on their door 24 hours before the showing stating the date you intend to show it. Then on that date knock first and enter. If the tennat gets mad, tough ****.
Your lease will say if you're allowed to market the property for sale while they're living there. Besides that, many home owners offer the tenants cash upon an offer received while they're still living there. THat helps them want to keep the place clean and allow buyers in. Cash speaks in most cases.
...If I know a home has tenants in it I exclude the house from showing if there are plenty of others to see. Homes with tenants do not usually look good or impress buyers - there are exceptions.
Best thing to do is get rid of the tenants, fix up the house and have it looking in tip top shape.
Agree, usually too much trouble to schedule and they generally don't want you there. OK for investors that want to take over management of the property.
I would be really peeved if I was paying full rent on a home and had to have it in "showing condition" at all times and have strangers wandering through my home looking at my things. I know landlords have the RIGHT to sell a house while renters are in it, but I don't think it's right.
I'm a very private person, and the pressure to have a house always perfectly clean for visitors would make me NUTS. I'd be angry that I was paying full rent to sell someone else's house. It was a very stressful time when I was a child and my parents were selling our own home, because there were seven children and we had to keep the house perfect at all times. It was awful, and we were the actual sellers.
The decent thing to do would be to offer a reduction in rent, maybe they'd come around. You do have a legal right to sell the house while they are in it, but I really feel for THEM in this situation. Do they have small children? Maybe they aren't comfortable with strangers wandering through their homes and maybe taking things?
I would be really peeved if I was paying full rent on a home and had to have it in "showing condition" at all times and have strangers wandering through my home looking at my things. I know landlords have the RIGHT to sell a house while renters are in it, but I don't think it's right.
I'm a very private person, and the pressure to have a house always perfectly clean for visitors would make me NUTS. I'd be angry that I was paying full rent to sell someone else's house. It was a very stressful time when I was a child and my parents were selling our own home, because there were seven children and we had to keep the house perfect at all times. It was awful, and we were the actual sellers.
The decent thing to do would be to offer a reduction in rent, maybe they'd come around. You do have a legal right to sell the house while they are in it, but I really feel for THEM in this situation. Do they have small children? Maybe they aren't comfortable with strangers wandering through their homes and maybe taking things?
I'd say, if you feel that way, you shouldn't sign a lease that allows the landlord the right to show the property for sale. Leases that I've seen have in them that the tenant will allow a lockbox and showing for lease during the last month of the lease, which would be the same thing, and the tenant can get out of it by agreeing to pay a substantial sum (a few hundred dollars) for the privilege of NOT allowing the landlord to show the property, because of the resulting loss to the landlord (who, however private a person you are, actually owns the house you're living in, remember).
exactly. Irritate the tenant enough and that is what he will leave in the living room. Saw a place where the bank owned the place and was selling it out from under the guy. He had his dog poop throughout the house and left it there.
I'd say, if you feel that way, you shouldn't sign a lease that allows the landlord the right to show the property for sale. Leases that I've seen have in them that the tenant will allow a lockbox and showing for lease during the last month of the lease, which would be the same thing, and the tenant can get out of it by agreeing to pay a substantial sum (a few hundred dollars) for the privilege of NOT allowing the landlord to show the property, because of the resulting loss to the landlord (who, however private a person you are, actually owns the house you're living in, remember).
Sounds like a reasonable alternative to me. Really, if it was just the last month of the lease I don't think it would be as much of a big deal. But the option of paying a fee for the landlord not to show the house also sounds like a good solution.
Renters are never fun to deal with. I never like showing property with tenants, and often make them the last ones I show people. There is nothing in it for them, and its hard to motivate them to do (or not) do anything. Then if the new property owners want the space themselves (especially with single family), their lease will be ending no matter what and they are going to be moving at some point. So in some cases they will do anything to make sure the property isn't going to sell. Guess I can't blame them, it can really not be fun for them as well.
Such as limiting the hours to show a house. I had some buyers, the wife gives me a call on a Sunday afternoon, tells me they want to see this house (we were going to see other houses on Monday). Cute house, good price, no wonder they want to see it. No problem I tell her, I'll get you in it.
Look it up.
Problem: The showing hours are limited to 1-3 PM Saturday only. 2 hours in a whole stinking week! Are you kidding me? I need to show it Monday, Why? The husband is working the next two Saturdays, and cannot get out of work. Because the third Saturday they are going to a relatives wedding (to mock me to boot the wedding starts at 1PM). So they cannot see the house for a month (provided the husband doesn't get stuck with work on the fourth Saturday again).
Asked a more experienced agent that was in the office if she had seen a house with showing hours that limited before. She thought it was really weird too. Must be the tenant from hell she says.
Call the listing agent. Ask if we could get in a different time. Tell her why. Wish I could, she says, Not a chance though, the tenants won't budge from those hours. She and the property owners had been trying and getting nowhere on this issue. These tenants are giving her the hardest time about it for trying. She is almost crying on the phone she is so frustrated about that she couldn't get me in (or anyone else for that matter).
how do i sell my home with the current renters unwilling to let buyers see the home inside
Insufficient information. Are you going with the buyers or are you just sending potential buyers over their way? If you're not going with, are you at least giving the tenant notice (which you ought to do in any case)? Because if some strangers just up and showed up at my door and said "your landlord said I could take a look around," I'd certainly tell 'em to knob off.
TexasHorseLady mentioned renters being given an option to pay extra $$ to keep the house they're living in off the market.
Deals can also be negotiated where renters are given concessions or even offered a lump sum if they agree to work with the owner instead of against them in getting the property sold.
Coming up with an agreement where both sides give a little, instead of digging in their heals and demanding every little thing they're entitled to under the law, could make the situation a whole lot less stressful for everyone.
Personally I find living in a house when it's on the market a real PITA. I hate it as an owner, I imagine it has to be even worse as a renter. And in my state, the laws are such that I'm sure a tenant could make having a house on the market a futile exercise for a landlord if they chose to.
Of course I have no idea where the OP is, or what kind of statutes he/she is operating under.
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