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Originally Posted by Traum
Word of advice from me -- don't EVER rent your unit out because you need the money. Find a tenant you feel comfortable with and then rent it out. Also, make sure you sign a fixed term contract!!! You are dramatically increasing your risk, and making life difficult for yourself when you lose the ability to kick a bad tenant out via expiration of your tenancy contract.
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my parents did this with our previous tenant. my god what a fucking mess that was.. it was a young guy who was on some kind of drugs. piece of shit was smoking in the suite and living in his own filth. there was a huge pile of garbage in the kitchen and HOARDS of fruit flies everywhere, it was the most disgusting thing i've ever seen. the fucker even left a plate of macaroni in the oven for so long that it had turned into this gross pile of brown mush with maggots growing in it.
just do your due diligence and treat it like a business OP. ask for references, check them. get employer references too, hell even ask for a recent pay stub for your own piece of mind.