Potential Tenant wants to book in advance

[Joseph Nguyen]

Hello!

I'm new to the real estate scene and was wondering how to handle potential tenants who want to book months in advance? What's a reasonable timeframe? Do I just ask for 1 month deposit? I currently have a SFH where I aim to rent the rooms out for mid-term rentals (only have 1 so far in the 3 available listings). Thinking about switching to LTR if I'm unable to get additional people in there before the current tenant's lease ends in 3/10/24.

But anyways, I have another potential person looking to lease May 18 - Aug 3, but that's 4 months away. Was wondering if anybody has dealth with this and how to handle? I'm in Texas. TIA