Bringing in New Tenant After Broken Lease

[Preston C.]

This may be in an old thread somewhere, but I figured asking directly would be easier than digging. 

So I am fairly new to this and currently only have 1 rental house. So I recently had my first tenants break the lease after about 7 months of renting because of job relocation. I kept the deposit since they broke the lease, but would like to get the new renter in either on or shortly after December 1st so that I'm not losing much from vacancy. I had a potential tenant come and look at the house today and am waiting on the application back, but am pretty sure he is the one I will go with as long as the application doesn't have any surprises. He said he isn't planning on moving until about Dec. 9th, but could possibly do sooner. 

My question is, would it be fine to go ahead and push to start the lease on the 1st, so I can get a full month's rent for December, or just let him start it on the 9th and lose out on 9 days rent out of the month (which actually comes out to about 190 bucks)?

Thanks in advance for any response.

[Kyle J.]

If he's agreeable to starting it on the 1st, obviously that would be better for you and you should do that. But if he's adamant that he can't move in until the 9th and doesn't want to start the lease until then, I'd be fine with that.  That's fair.  After all, that's less than 3 weeks away.  Not too long to wait.  Many tenants wouldn't be able to move in for 30 days because they'd need to give their current landlord proper notice.  (And that's the kind of tenant you want anyway.)