Grace Period Before Lease Starts

[Travis Bagley]

This seems obvious, but curious how other landlords are handling these situations.

Scenario:

You have a property you put up for rent and start receiving applications. You receive 2 applications. Both tenants are perfectly qualified.

Applicant A applied first but doesn't want to move in/start lease for 5 weeks.

Applicant B applied second but wants to move in/start lease in 3 weeks. 

Do you

1) Give it to B because they can move in sooner?

2) Give it to A because they were first?

3) Give it to A but tell them to bad the least grace period is a max of 30 days?

4) Ask for some kind of non-refundable holding fee for tenant A

[Adam Martin]

If they are equally qualified go with b.  I’m in NKY but don’t think cincy has a rule where first person gets it.  I would offer to b and have them put the deposit to hold and first months rent.  If they don’t have it I’d move to a and let them know there were multiple interested parties interested in the first and see if they would go for it.