Somebody, rent this damn house.

We hired a property manager to you know, "manage" the property while we are gone and he has 2 different options regarding pay.
1. Start up
If he markets your house to rent it for you then he takes your security deposit, does not matter how much he just snatches it right up. In our case it would be $1500.00.
That includes:
Marketing
rental application
lease paperwork
and all the other crap I don't know about doing.
2.On-going management
You lease your house and have renters and he just collects payment and does the "management" thing and collects 8% of your monthly mortgage, better than the 10% I found at other property management places.

My thinking was, why give him our security deposit? I can rent it myself and keep the security deposit for house emergencies and to give back the renters security deposit. Plus he literally said on the phone in the 30 years he has been a realtor he has never rented as many homes as he has over the last 6 months! If he can do it I can. HA!

So I have placed ads on craigslist and homesforrent.com and have had people respond but there are just soooooo many homes out there right now we are in a renting war. I feel like I need to make these looking families dinner and start a movies for them with the candles lit just to give them something different. Good idea!! Do you think that will scare them away? Maybe Steve could give them a massage or sing to them? The kids could dance, and Cyrus could come with the house. Maybe I will try that one: Free dog with rental of home.

If you know anyone, who might want to rent our place pass them along to me, we could really get them all set up and the kids need to start working on their dance moves.

Here is the link to Craigslist:https://accounts.craigslist.org/post/shwpst?pii=626234845&db=lv