Showing tenant occupied apartment

[Troy B.]

I'm a new landlord and I have a tenant that just informed me she is moving out at the end of the month. I have some prospective new tenants that want to look at the place but can only make it during hours she isn't home. She is now telling me she doesn't want anyone in the apartment while she isn't home. Do I have the right to show the apartment with a 24 hr notice even if she isn't home?

[Lynn McGeein]

Troy, we don't show our homes until they are vacant anymore, as if the tenant really doesn't want you in there, you will likely be showing it with dishes in the sink, totally filthy, even toilets that have not been flushed, and then they complain that things went missing. Our leases say we have permission to enter to show it, but we don't use it.