When we scheldule to go fix the heater, the tenant told us to come on weekend so that tenant can bring the certify electrician to watch us. Please advice for any suggestions, ideas or questions.? Thanks in advance. --172.58.xxx.xx

I would ignore them or respond with "it's not currently for sale" and end that conversation right there. Then, I would get ready to either evict them or give them notice to vacate soon. They just set you up with that list of complaints. --70.44.xxx.xx

Plan on not being paid for March,they are setting you up as NE said so when you ask about the rent they will say we told you it needs work and you did nothing --72.231.xxx.xxx

How long have they been renting there? Compare their rent to others in their area with rentometer.com. If it is substantial and they continue to rant, remind them of their savings by renting there. --186.233.xxx.xx

Clue: why would they want to buy a house in this condition? Get over there asap to fix furance disregard their request to come on their terms, put in writting the date and time, if they are not home, use your key to enter as you gave proper notice. Follow your state laws. Get the list fixed and charge full market rent. This list would make me a bit upset. Are they trying to tell you the house is cheap and they want to buy at a cheap price? Do you want to sell? --172.56.xx.xxx

Tenants have been renting for about 3 years. --172.58.xxx.xx

We want to sell the house but not at the low price tenants want to buy. --172.58.xxx.xx

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They are cheapening the house to lower price or justify not paying rent and making it your fault. Get the heater wire problem done ASAP on your schedule, not theirs. I am a retired family doctor and in my experience a lot of my patients really got irritating and grouchy in February. Cabin fever is real unfortunately. Like others here, I hate lists. --216.23.xxx.xx

If the house is in as bad a shape as the tenant describes you might be better off going with their offer and not using an agent which will save you 6%. Time is money. Bird in the hand . . . --65.188.xxx.xxx

Schedule it on YOUR time. Most electricians will charge extra on the weekends. They can leave-ask if it is their notice. Still owe for March. Then, being spiteful, I would sell to someone else. All the "court" shows are always "why did you stay so long?". --73.230.xxx.xx

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Get them out ASAP, they are destroying your place - anyone can guess the deposit will never cover the repairs they have already caused. --76.188.xxx.xxx

The reason I would respond this way is they are not going to be happy until you sell them the house for the low ball price they want or else you fix everything on their laundry list, which will be very expensive with them living there. Time for a change-over. Tenants forget that playing hardball sometimes backfires. --107.216.xxx.xxx

We had tenants ask if they could buy the house they were renting. We didn't really want to sell it to them, but since the cockroaches and rats had moved in shortly after they did we really didn't want to have a turnover. We agreed to sell it to them for the very fair price of $84K. Then they asked for a new garage door and a couple of other fairly expensive items totalling about $4K. We told them no. They ended up spending the money they'd saved for a down payment and are still there. --104.230.xxx.xx

I don’t tolerate tenants like yours. Jack the rent up so they move, fix up the property and either re-rent or sell. --99.23.xxx.x

Raise the rent then over time start to renovate house where a portion of the rent goes into repairs, renovations. Start off with the small items then gradually move up. The house should be only sold very appraised value not the price the tenant wants to pay. --99.236.xxx.xxx