Very upset tenants during final walkthrough

[Dylan Legg]

Good evening BP,

At the time I’m writing this it’s 11:27PM CST.

I just left a my unit after the final walkthrough and key return.

For some backstory, I bought this duplex in August for myself to live in with a VA Loan.

For the first walkthrough, we told the tenant (on the side I would be moving into) that there lease would not be renewed. We gave them the cash for keys offer, and they later turned it down stating that didn’t have enough time. Which could have been fair it would have given them about 3 weeks. I still stated if they would like to leave sooner they had the opportunity to do so.

Weeks went bye, which turned into months and still no response as to when they would vacate. I asked and asked and asked and got the same response: “I will let you know when I’m ready”. With about a week left and no time given, I told them that if they don’t have a time, that they had until 11/30 at 5PM to do the final walk through and return keys. They said they could to do it at 9PM, so I agreed.

I arrived tonight with 2 very p*ssed off men, asking me if I think it’s ok to take someone’s home away from them, and that they had to miss their thanksgiving because of me, asking me how I could treat someone like this, and that they were sick of my tricky games.

Very flabbergasted I didn’t know what to say to any of this as I walked up alone and bombarded with these questions and statements filled with rage and anger..

I just kept saying “it’s not like that, it’s not like that”.

Which it wasn’t... I was extremely friendly with them during my entire 3 months of ownership. I have no idea where any of this came from.. Now my fiancé is terrified of moving in and frankly I’m not sure what to do.

Any advice on this would be super appreciated. This is my first property, and under some pretty crappy circumstances.

[Brian Garlington]

@Dylan Legg You gave them 3 months. I assume they have moved out. I'm guessing this is not in California because i know of people in this state that used the VA Loan and when they told the tenants they needed to move out it took a lot longer than 3 months. If the tenants are finally gone then they are gone. Y'all should not be afraid of moving in and hopefully you have a forwarding address for where they went. Chances are they actually had more than 3 months to prepare because if they knew the place was being sold they had to know there was a 50/50 chance they would be moving. The fact that they are acting like this tells you that you actually picked the right tenants to have move out....if you had inherited AND kept them as tenants they sound like they would have been headaches to deal with.