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Should Tenants stay or go during Open Houses and showings?
There are two sides to the issue of should tenants stay or go when a property is being shown, whether that is during an open house, or an agent is bringing a buyer to the property.  ON the one hand, the best case senario for a property to be shown is to have it be cleaned and vacant.  The property needs to be vacant when an agent brings a buyer to view the property because then, the buyers do not feel intimidated or that they are being "watched" while they are at the property.  Also, they can freely express their views, likes and dislikes, amongst themselves and their agent.  ON the flip side, if a property is being shown that has tenants living there and the tenants have property missing or destroyed aftar a showing, they are more likely to blame the showing agent and buyers, so in this case, it is best to have the tenants stay home, yet be out of the way, so that when something goes wrong or missing, they do not blame the buyers when it is not their fault. 
We recently had two tenants living in two seperate listings call and cancel on their open houses.  ... more

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