My Real Estate agent has met with a prospective new tenant who is willing to pay one year rent upfront.

Are you fully utilizing the power of online marketing to reach prospective renters? 

Unless home prices continue to rise strongly – and you cannot bet on that continuing – you could end up having to write a check for tens of thousands when you sell the home, a prospect that could keep you trapped there when you’d prefer to move on.

In any instance, the prospective tenant does not control the process, YOU DO.

Never went in the unit to make sure it was presentable, never called the prospective tenant to see where they were and sat in there car in front of the unit on there phone.  

Our property manager (an employee) is handling incoming calls from prospective tenants and existing tenants and the call volume is too high for one person. 

Here are some more questions ask your prospective PM what they would do.There is a light fixture that doesn't work.

You are probably the worst prospect for a contractor; a one off rehabber that can't or doesn't want to finish the job. 

I then furnished the rooms and offered shorter term leases and got a little more interest but no serious prospects.

I have to determine it in interactions with the prospects.