I recently posted about the latest regulations affecting evictions and rental payments in California. But what if you are a "landlord" with a vacancy right now? What's the best way to deal with that?
We recently went through it here and I can share the experience.
Our tenant was moving at the end of the month and understandably did not want us showing the property during the day. Without that overlapping time to show prospective tenants would we be forced to deal with a long vacancy between tenants?
We advertised in three places: Facebook, Craigslist and Zillow. (Zillow by the way is getting really good at this with their multiple websites and messaging tools).
This was around June and we were getting many prospect inquiries. Unfortunately a lot of them went away when we told them we couldn't show until the 1st of July.
We took many photos - maybe 18 were posted. Video would have been better but there was no way to get this done. (The photos were already in our files).
Bottom line is we got kind of lucky. We found a tenant willing to take the place based on seeing the outside, and the photos. Our previous tenant moved out on the 30th and we did a fast cleanup in time for the next day.
Lessons learned:
1. Take photos and videos whenever you can have for the future.
2. Advertise like crazy. Respond to every call and email.
3. Plan on a small period of vacancy between tenants. But if possible try to get move-out dates and move-in dates that minimize this.
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