When to start advertising a listing that needs to be updated?

[Josh L.]

I have a upcoming vacancy that's coming up, but I also know I'll need to rip out the carpets and put in something like hardwood or something vinyl that looks like hardwood. I think the place will show much better when I have the new flooring in.

When do you start advertising the place on Craigslist? Do you start doing it before you've done the updates or wait till afterwards?

If you start advertising it before the updates been completed, how early do you start? I'm afraid that if I start advertising a week before its ready, then I'll be scheduling appointments for a week later and who knows if the prospects will still show up by that point.