Questions for those landlords who start advertising BEFORE tenant vacates

[Sam Leon]

I understand the best case scenerio is your new tenant moves in the same day your last tenant moves out.

I wonder how some of you landlords minimize the turn over time.

This mean you do showings while the last tenant was still occupying the property.

To me the problem is, during the last two weeks or so of a tenant leaving the property, usually the property interior is a mess. Packing boxes, stuff in semi state of packing unpacking, unwashed dishes in the sink, laundry piled up. Stuff taken down from the bookshelves, flat screen TV taken off the wall, torn and moldy shower curtains, streak marks on the toilet trap ways, closet doors jammed shut with filled boxes. You get the idea.

Does it really form a good impression to your potential tenant to show it in that state?

Plus since the tenant is in the state of packing, a lot of items are in a state of flux, with multiple showings, I just hate a tenant to blame something on my showings - "I had an iPad on top of the coffee table this morning, and it's gone".

So I typically wait till the property is vacated and I had a chance to clean it to show it, but I like to hear from other landlords who have showned their units during the last weeks of occupancy. Does it help or not?