It seems like we have a bit of a disconnect in teh viewing audience here, and I am forced to forge ahead with what I think is best. Not so very long ago it was a chorus of "Get showing it - it doesn't have to be perfect and complete!!" And now it seems to be "You can't show it half-done!" and yet here we are facing the reality that I will be away for the next couple weeks and need to get processing applications so we can get income happening. If I wanted better pics, I would be waiting forever to get a listing up. The landscaping won't happen until June at the earliest. The floors will go in over the next couple weeks. It would be a glorious thing to have the luxury of waiting a month to list it, but the competition with other units then would be intense. Spring markets here can be crazy. Also, new pics as rooms reach completion means the ad pops back to the top of the list.
I do have a number of very interested replies to the ad - although some have that tone of desperation that sets off alarm bells. like this one:
I can give you 2000.00* asap I am so in desperate need of a place for now I don't even care what it looks like..could you please call me at 1-XXX-XXX-XXXX
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*Note - first and last month's rent will be $3600, not good at math, this one is.
Reading on other forums, the whole prescreen process will take about a month, and getting the place tenanted usually takes 2. Getting the ad out now means I will have exposure as the season ramps up, and hopefully a tenant before too long. Hopefully.
I think this market does not have a lot of family homes to offer and I am in a good space to find a tenant regardless. We shall see.