1-year lease or month to month?

[Jennifer Wong]

Bought my first property: end unit condo class A and looking for first tenant.  My cousin who has 3 rental properties manages his own units and has all rental agreements on month to month and has all long-term tenants. His reasoning: easier eviction should tenant default.  Knowing the rental increase in California is regulated, I am not intending on raising the rent for at least a year if at all.  Does is make sense to structure rental agreement as MTM or 1-year lease?? 

[Joe Homs]

@Jennifer Wong  I have changed my leases to 11 months to avoid locking them in as permanent tenants after 1 year.  If there are any issues with the tenant during this time you can evict easier.  Most tenants may not accept a month to month lease.

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