Timing the Ad of a Rental

[Carl Rowles]

Hi BP Fam!

We are closing on our first rental property TOMORROW! Very excited! It's a 3bed/2ba SFH that needs just a little TLC. We have the vendors all lined up ready to come in and fix stuff next week and it's nothing that can't be done within 1-2 weeks, even if our own DIY things.

My question: If we want to have a tenant in place on or around Oct 1, when should we begin advertising? I know we want to try to wait to show the property until fixes are done and it looks the best it can, but how much lead time before that? A few days? A week? Or are there other metrics/guidelines/rules of thumb I could use to help gauge that part of our timeline?