How much notice do we need to give our tenant?

[Phteven]

We're trying to sell our house. We have phoned and emailed our tenant a number of times about getting access and she hasn't returned our calls or replied to our emails. At what stage does it become ok for us to open the place and show the realtor through ourselves?
She's a good tenant but we've let the place to her under market value so we're not evil landlords. We just want access to our house to sell it. She's been dilly-dallying about moving to the UK for months now so she's planning on leaving anyway. It's not like the sale will be a huge inconvenience to her.

[miss.cinders]

Send her a written request/notice of inspection in the mail. I'm not sure if emails count as a written request/notice?

Then if she hasn't contacted you in approx two weeks [which is ample time to reply after receiving it] I would think you have the right to enter the premises. On the written notice make a date and a time.

I think she has forfeited any niceties now.

*ETA* Have a look at the lease you both agreed on. It should have on there the procedure for inspections of any kind.

[blessedatlast]

I think as long as you have given notice in writing you are ok to enter whether she has responded back or not..Thats what Real estates do. They send a letter to say they are entering and thats that, they come in whether you are home or not..

ETA I agree with the above post, check lease if there is one in place..

[~Hestia~]

I don't know much about leasing but maybe you could send a letter Registered post? That way she has to sign and you'll know she has received it.

[Jennifer13]

I've been on the other end of this, as a tennant and this is how it worked for us.

We received a letter with 30 days notice that we needed to vacate. We were outside of a lease (it had lapsed). We managed to negotiate longer, because they were only wanting access for quotes and the like as they wanted to rip the house down. I think we ended up staying another 30 days past the initial date, when we had another place to move into. But we were good tenants, so the arrangement was mutual.

When they wanted to bring someone through, they gave us some notice (usually written). An email or phone call was fine by us. At least 24 hours, but really more was necessary to make sure we'd be home. They were very good with making sure it was convenient. I did have one tradesman just turn up, but that was unexpected on both sides.

HTH!

[kelebek]

Check your lease but generally you only need to give them approx 3 days written notice. We were given 60 days notice that the owners wanted the house back and we were out of lease too so it was very generous of them and more then what was required by lease. Goodluck

[Phteven]

Thanks for the advice. We just got a phone call from the tenant. She foundmout last week that she can't fly after 36 weeks so she flew out over the weekend because she's 36 weeks today.
Works perfectly for us. She's paying the next 3 weeks rent and we have a vacant house to show. Dunno hownhappy she's going to be about me taking the mowing out ofmher rent butbthe garden was perfectbwhen we handed over and now the grass is 20cm high.

[Lulu]

if you havebto pay for abslasher to get theblawn sorted, sobit.

[Sibbie]

if you havebto pay for abslasher to get theblawn sorted, sobit.

Lulu - I'm literally crying with laughter aaah


Onyx - Glad things worked out I was only going to suggest what every one else had already said. Lol.