Tenant Guests- yes or no?

[Joe Nam Do]

Hello everyone. I am relatively new and started renting out to family and friends. Now, I will start marketing to strangers and was curious about how to deal with tenant’s guests. The upstairs bedrooms will all be rented out and my wife and I will live downstairs. For safety’s sake is it best just to say no guests or should renter’s be allowed to have a guest with advanced notice? Thanks for your advice :)

[Nicole A.]

I used to rent rooms out and never had issues with guests. If a roommate had been bringing over a friend too often where it became invasive to me, then I would simply have a talk with the roommate.

I would suggest that you only do month-to-month leases when renting rooms in your own home. That way if you do not like how things are meshing, you can ask them to leave. Before I did month-to-month leases with roommates, I had one that was fine when it came to paying rent and being a generally good person, but he was too dirty for my liking. I felt I was always cleaning up after him. But I was legally committed to him for another 6 months before the lease ended because I had a year lease. If it was month-to-month, I could have just given him the 30-day notice immediately after realizing he just wasn't going to be clean.