Fort Worth Property Management Pros on the Proper Way to Vacate

Time to vacate your apartment, condo, or rental home? Fort Worth property management and Dallas rental property management experts combine forces to offer this list of suggestions when moving day is imminent.

• Provide a notice of your intent to terminate in writing, respecting your rental contract's stated period of termination.
  
  
• Remove your things, taking care to wrap the corners of large furniture to avoid damage to walls, stairways, etc.
  
  
• Clean the unit, leaving it in at least as good a condition as it was in when you moved in. Taking photographs of each room after the cleaning is always an excellent idea at this point.
  
  
• See if you can arrange to accompany the rental property management representative, landlord, or maintenance manager when they do the final inspection. If you can get a signed report on this vacating walkthrough, that would be a definite plus.
  
  
• Lock the doors and return the keys. Property managers warn that tenants frequently forget to ask for a receipt for the keys during this step. Do get a written receipt, even if it's on a scrap of newspaper, to avoid problems in the future.

Common courtesy and thoughtfulness go a long way toward maintaining that vital good relationship between landlord, or property manager, and tenant, but there are some facets of vacating a rental that may not occur to you. By adhering closely to the above suggestions advocated by the professionals in Dallas and Fort Worth property management, the tenant who is vacating can avoid many pitfalls and future problems associated with moving out, and count on a good reference from the landlord.