COVID-19: Showing a property

[Kellie Ellsworth]

My tenant just gave their 30 days notice so I will need to show the property to other potential tenants. My current tenant asked that anyone who enter the property wear masks because of COVID-19. Do I need to do this?

[Joe Splitrock]

Originally posted by @Kody Thompson:

No, Cotton masks wont prevent the spread of Covid-19 as stated by Dr. Fauci himself. If you want to be nice and ask them to that would be polite but requiring something that doesn't work in the first place doesn't make sense. 

 Nothing will stop the spread, but face masks reduce the distance and amount of spread. The only reason the government told people early on that masks don't help was to preserve supply for health care workers. Evidence now shows this is completely spread through air spray and not on surfaces.

More importantly, the tenant requested this and it is reasonable. I would 100% respect the tenants request. Having a medical debate with a tenant about the effectiveness of masks is a waste of time. They could just refuse showings all together and nothing could be done legally. Honestly even having the debate here on BP is a waste. Trying to argue that doctors are wearing masks for no reason is silly at best. 

As far as Dr. Fauci...