We’re moving in a tenant tonight, and it’s been a bit of an interesting experience amidst the COVID-19 and stay-at-home order. The move in date has been planned for weeks, and the tenant is flying in and relocating from Louisiana tonight.
We’ve never physically met.
Now, that’s not entirely strange for me. We placed a tenant in January that was moving up from North Carolina. We did a Facetime walk through of the house just like we did this time, but I ended up meeting him at the home to give him the keys when he got in.
This time I simply left a lock box on the house and our new tenant let herself in. Honestly, it was pretty cool.
That said, it’s been a bit stressful. This home, Somerset, was the one we had the furnace and water heater stolen from not long ago. So we had to finally put new ones back in. I trusted a guy I’d never worked with before to put them in this morning, again with just a lock box on the house.
I was nervous he’d flake or something would go wrong, because I would have been left without a backup. I’m happy to report everything went smooth.
It’s been a long road getting Somerset back rented after having to evict our inherited tenants. We’ve dumped more money into the house than I’d have liked, but I’m glad we now have it rented and producing again. I’ll have to do a write up about what we did, how much we spent, and what we’re hoping to see in terms payback period.