How to protect your property after closing with tenants??

[Teresa Oss]

Does anyone know how to protect your property when you close on a property and you have to give a month to month tenant a 30 day notice to move out? Worried about them destroying things. Insurance companies seem to ignore/don't understand the worry I have. Any advice helpful.

[Mike McCarthy]

I think if you’re friendly and professional and communicative, you’ll do just fine. You hear of all the ‘bad tenant stories’, but often the tenant has been considering moving too. Let them know why you are doing this (business reasons, rehabbing, etc (of course, not too much detail - but enough so it’s an ‘it’s not you, it’s me’). And remind them how you need the house left to get their full deposit back. ‘You don’t need to deep clean since we’re renovating, but al your stuff needs to be out, not trash, etc