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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I will be renting my 5 bedroom house in Chevy Chase, MD beginning 1 September 2024.  Would like to rent to Embassy, Military, or other persons for at least a 2 year lease.  Where is the best place to advertise my property?

Thanks in advance! [/quote]

That's great!
You're about to enter the world of being a spoiled landlord, lol.

You'll have a much greater advantage over the vast majority of other landlords, because BCC is one of the very few high schools in lower MoCo, that can accept international credits from schools overseas in the International Baccalaueate Program (better known as the 1B).
Since most diplomats have children, that is a BIG deal!.

The only high schools that are affiliated with 1B in lower MoCo are BCC, Richard Montgomery, Einstein & Rockville.

I rented to 4 different embassies over a 20 year period (England, Italy, Austria & Copenhagen).
Let me tell you, embassies are THE best tenants!

- They always pay on time, every time. 
- They send their own embassy workers over to the house to fix anything & everything that needs to be fixed. 
- They leave the house in better condition than what they found it in usually, as the vast majority want to upgrades to the home to make it into the luxury that they're accustom to (and they pay for it all). 
- They're super easy/available to communicate with. 
- The actual tenants are almost always very respectful, as they know that their embassy has the power to make or break them and more importantly, where they end up next.

We loved all of our tenants, with the exception of one... she was from the UK embassy and she was an absolute NIGHTMARE!  
She let the water run on the master bedroom toilet 24/7 without telling anyone, so we ended up getting a $20,000 water bill at the end of the month (which the embassy paid for).  She was difficult, smug, sanctimonious, had a nasty attitude,  incommunicative when we needed to get in the house to look at things thatSHE  complained about, she damaged a few sections of hardwood that had to be totally replaced, and she was even nastier to the people who worked at the embassy than she was us (and the people who work at the embassies in support are a special kind of patient and kind.  There was absolutely no reason to treat them that way).

My contact and the embassy filed a report on her, which she said she'd never done in her 18 years of being a landlord liason.

For my tenants next assignment, they sent her to Tripoli, Libya. 🤣

So, as for getting on their radar. 
I would look at their website and find someone who you can send the listing of your property to, and then send it to every single embassy on the row.
You'll get a bite ASAP (especially if you're in the BCC cluster, they snap those homes up as soon as they hit the market). 
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