How to show an occupied "cluttered" house to tenant applicants

[Andrew Martin]

I'm looking for suggestions / advice.  I have a tenant that giving their 30 day notice and will be out by the end of June. To avoid much vacancy, I wanted to start advertising now and showing the house for a July 1st ish  move in date. 

I went to the house yesterday and it's pretty clean (from a dirt point of view), but they have stuff EVERYWHERE. Not hoarders at all, just love to shop i guess and buy stuff. The rooms are pretty full, the garage is full, etc. etc. etc.

I think I'm wasting my time showing it before they move, but then I will kill the month of July probably while someone gives their notice.

Any suggestions?

thanks,

Andrew

[Gail K.]

Sometimes a landlord will give a current tenant an "incentive" to help re-rent a unit.  For example, if it gets rented for July 1, the current tenant gets some type of financial bonus at move out.  The idea is that they have to keep it in it's best "showing form" to entice possible applicants.

Gail