In my experience, inherited tenants almost never, ever work out under new ownership.This is a common fault with new landlords (which is exacerbated by the owner/occ component) - being too lenient. 

@Lyman DeAnn-Gaines IIEducation: Educating yourself on all aspects of what you do will lessen your fears.

@Di Ye You can raise rents more easily and quickly and get inherited tenants out in short order.

I am looking for some advice on how to market a property in San Jose (Actually Campbell) that my wife an her sister inherited from their mom.  

(Would love a recommendation on a new data provider, the numbers are mostly accurate but I only receive back about 65% of the address’ I give them) Calling hours:Monday-Friday: 4PM-8PMSaturday-Sunday: 11AM-8PMI am cold calling only absentee owners with these motivation indicators: Tax liens, out of town/out of state owners, code violations, a D4D list and inherited properties.

@Laurinda Reynolds unfortunately inherited tenants sometimes go feral.

I inherited 3 tenants and I've been blessed that they've all been great.

It’s a duplex and I inherited one tenant and plan to live in the other unit.

Our property manager was able to drive rental increases on turnover/lease renewal through some leasing inefficiencies that we inherited upon purchase.

Hello, So I have a 3 bedroom, 1.5 bathroom property that when I purchased, I inherited tenants that were using the attic as a fourth bedroom.