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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Best tenants are military families. Handy and trustworthy. Diplomats leave the country after a couple of years. They don’t care about their credit here. Can trash your place without much consequences.[/quote]

Military can leave w/o consequences if they're called for duty[/quote]

Maybe in terms of timing, but not condition. I grew up in a town with a military base, and military officers were the best tenants. The base had inspectors that would come check the house after move out to make sure it had been left in pristine condition. Literally the “white glove” test. I don’t know if they do that anymore, but there would be repercussions for a member of the military who trashed a house. The base has an interest in maintaining access to rental properties in the area, and they want a reputation for being good tenants. [/quote]

I agree with you. They are nice people and leave the place spotless. But sometimes they just have to pack up and go if duty calls and I don't begrudge them for that.  But it's a huge pain when I'm living halfway around the world to try and find a tennant asap. Even with a property manager it's a hassle[/quote]

I agree that military tenants tend to be the best, especially if the military person is living in the house.  If it is a spouse and the military person is TDY then that can be a different story because basically the spouse in the house is basically a single parent and that's tough on anyone.  However, the kids and family tend to be super respectful of the property and even my tough love husband will go out of his way for a trailing spouse.  We like renting to military above all other types of tenants, although of course we'll take anyone who can pay the rent we're asking and also pass our background and credit checks.[/quote]

We are military and rent to military for all of the reasons noted above. But the DC military rental market has a few things you might want to consider.  For most jobs/ ranks of O3 and up there is usually 3 months or so of notice before they have to move. We’ve had 1 family in 7 years of renting have to terminate their lease early and they told us in February that they would have to move in May. The standard terms to break a lease due to military orders are that you have to give your landlord 30 days notice and pay the rent for the last month.  We use military by owner and haven’t had issues with getting new tenants. The summer move cycle is by far the busiest and those orders are out in Nov-April for the following summer.

Beware of retiring officers. Our only bad experience was renting to a military family where they retired and then bought a house in the neighborhood.  In the interests of not burning bridges/ COVID we didn’t do our usual move out inspection and it was really bad.  There was no recourse to his command because he was retiring so he didn’t care. They were incredibly aggressive about getting their deposit back and hid damage.  We assumed they were just house poor and needed as much cash as possible for closing. So DH did a quick walk through. [/quote]

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