Tenant won’t leave for inspection

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no correlation between the tenant not wanting to vacate for the inspection, and the risk they might not vacate when their lease is over.

This working parent has her hands full with her job and her toddler, and it's probably extremely disruptive to take her child and leave for a few hours.

You are very rude to expect this of her, and accuse her of disturbing you. It's YOU who are disturbing HER. She is under no legal obligation to leave. When she is legally obligated to leave, I am sure she will do so.

How irritating that busy mothers of young children are always blamed for everything. I am annoyed at you and your agent.

Not trying to sound like an AH but my agent thought it was odd and I felt it was odd. My agent has been in this business for 15 years and said he’s never once had a tenant stay. Just seemed odd to me that they’d want to stay when we are talking a 2/3 hour inspection with 4 of us there.

sorry but you sound like a AH. this family rented a house and they have the right to fully enjoy it. you show up at 3pm on a week-day with a person working from home and a young kid, a group of several people planning to spend 3 hours looking into any nook of the place (where this family stuff is, documents, personal belongings, private stuff and so on, and you expect her to vacate and stay on the street or at a cafe handling work and toddler so you can have the run of "their" house (their because they rented it from the owner). either your agent is telling you BS or he is not very experienced. if these people were working in an office and kid was in daycare, maybe, but they are working from home. did you ask them if there was a time when it would be convenient for them to be out of the house? i am sure the toddler will not be in your way. just do the inspection, thank the lady for letting you intrude in her place and congrats for your new house

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In the process of buying a house and our inspection is tomorrow at 3pm. The sellers agent just let my agent know that the tenant will be at the house during the showing. They have a young toddler and the mom works from home but still…I’m slightly annoyed about this. The tenant was there during our showing and did stay out of the way but is it not odd for a tenant to stay during a 2-3 hour inspection? Their lease is up 12/1 and we’ve been told they are actively seeking new housing but I’m just finding it odd that the seller isn’t telling them they have to be gone during it.

I lived in a rental when the landlord sold it and decided to stay for all showings after my stuff was gone through the first two times, and the third time the person the agent was showing the property to busted the back screen door. After that I stayed for all showings. Didn’t have any issues once I stayed during them. Not only that but there was other stuff when the landlord was there when I wasn’t home that irked me. People don’t respect renters and I would recommend they all stay for showings or even if the landlord needs to be fix/replace something. They don’t have to leave, and I wouldn’t leave if I was working from home either. SO glad to be done renting.

[Anonymous]

The person you should be upset with, OP, is not the tenant. You should be upset with the landlord/owner. They could have waited until the tenants lease was up, and the tenant had vacated the property, before even listing the place! Yes, that would have cost the owner money, but it would have made for a smoother transaction and apparently a happier buyer.

[Anonymous]

Money talks. “Here, Mom, $300 for you and the young’un to go enjoy yourselves from 3-6 pm Thursday.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In the process of buying a house and our inspection is tomorrow at 3pm. The sellers agent just let my agent know that the tenant will be at the house during the showing. They have a young toddler and the mom works from home but still…I’m slightly annoyed about this. The tenant was there during our showing and did stay out of the way but is it not odd for a tenant to stay during a 2-3 hour inspection? Their lease is up 12/1 and we’ve been told they are actively seeking new housing but I’m just finding it odd that the seller isn’t telling them they have to be gone during it.

Wow. Main character syndrome. This has to be a troll.

Picturing being the tenant, with a young toddler being thrown out of your house and needing to find a place by 12/1. Any housing right now it impossible to find!

You are the jerk OP.

OP is not the jerk at all. You are. They should get the F out of the house for the inspection. Any reasonable tenant would.

[Anonymous]

OP are you saying you want the tenant out 7 days before you close? You...can't do that! Or did you mean the 8th of January, which is nice of you.

About the inspection: have some empathy and perspective. This is a person who probably didn't want to move, and now has to pay to move during the holidays. The least you can do as a person who plays a part on that is let a working parent continue to do their paid job while you do your little inspection. Also, the toddler is not going to get in your way. And if they do, you were in their way first, so...sigh.

[Anonymous]

If you want the tenant out, offer to pay moving/security deposit.

[Anonymous]

OP- Just a thought, but you do need to understand what it will mean for you if the tenant doesn't vacate. Not that they won't, but you don't want to misunderstand that there is a chance this could happen, and what you will need to do should that happen. Your agent just wants you to buy so they can get the commission, and sounds like they are not communicating the full range of scenarios that could play out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She has no incentive to leave because she doesn't care whether the sale goes through or not. I think you're looking at it the wrong way, though. If you are friendly to her you might get the opportunity to chat. She can tell you about what is wrong with the house because she lives in it!

+1 One of the tenants at an investment property our agent was showing us told us she was leaving before her lease was up because of rats and other issues. We very much appreciated her feedback and did not put in an offer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. It's perfectly acceptable. They do not have to leave and they have legitimate reasons to be there. They aren't interfering with anything. You ATA.

OP here: I get they have a lease and can stay but it’s just odd to me and annoying and even my agent said she’d never once had a tenant stay during an inspection. I’m just worried about a toddler getting in the way during it.

We stayed for the inspection when we were in her shoes. We work from home and we had already been inconvenienced enough by the lying realtors and owners. We were still paying the full price of $5,000 a month to live there so we were done being inconvenienced.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I would never leave my home with my personal property in it for a group of strangers to go looking in cabinets and wardrobes. Not only would I stay for the entire thing, I would actually follow them around and make sure they didn’t take anything.

Do you ever plan on selling a home?

I'm curious about the sales process in this context.

When you’re the owner, you get a storage unit and prepare. When you’re the tenant, it doesn’t make sense for you to spend all that time and money for showings.

[Anonymous]

Op, you have bigger worries than tenant presence at the inspection — I would really think twice before buying a tenant-occupied home. (In fact, we didn’t put an offer in on a great home because of it.)

[Anonymous]

I would not leave a bunch of strangers in with all my stuff there furthermore I'm immune comprised so everyone would have to be masked to enter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP are you saying you want the tenant out 7 days before you close? You...can't do that! Or did you mean the 8th of January, which is nice of you.

About the inspection: have some empathy and perspective. This is a person who probably didn't want to move, and now has to pay to move during the holidays. The least you can do as a person who plays a part on that is let a working parent continue to do their paid job while you do your little inspection. Also, the toddler is not going to get in your way. And if they do, you were in their way first, so...sigh.

Why not? The tenants lease hasn’t been renewed and OP never said what state this was in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In the process of buying a house and our inspection is tomorrow at 3pm. The sellers agent just let my agent know that the tenant will be at the house during the showing. They have a young toddler and the mom works from home but still…I’m slightly annoyed about this. The tenant was there during our showing and did stay out of the way but is it not odd for a tenant to stay during a 2-3 hour inspection? Their lease is up 12/1 and we’ve been told they are actively seeking new housing but I’m just finding it odd that the seller isn’t telling them they have to be gone during it.

I lived in a rental when the landlord sold it and decided to stay for all showings after my stuff was gone through the first two times, and the third time the person the agent was showing the property to busted the back screen door. After that I stayed for all showings. Didn’t have any issues once I stayed during them. Not only that but there was other stuff when the landlord was there when I wasn’t home that irked me. People don’t respect renters and I would recommend they all stay for showings or even if the landlord needs to be fix/replace something. They don’t have to leave, and I wouldn’t leave if I was working from home either. SO glad to be done renting.

This. The renter should stay during inspections and showings because people don't show any respect.