Tenants being difficult when viewing a potential property?

[Christopher Henning]

So we are evaluating a property and our agent is attempting to set up a showing and the tenants won't respond to the sellers agent. The rents there are very cheap now $325, should be around $550 in the current market. Do you think that the tenants are sabotaging the sale for the seller? If so is there a way to see the place by going around the tenant?

[Michael Rossi]

The OWNER needs to give the tenant legal notice that he is showing the property. Then, he can just show it, whether the tenant likes it or not. Yes, the tenants are probably intentionally sabotaging the sale. They've got a sucker for a landlord now (who never raises the rent and doesn't know what he's doing). Why would they want to change that?

Mike