If you were a landlord

Long term agreement if I could financially afford to wait 4 months

I would have my cake and eat it. Loan it out to the one month notice person for 3 months and then following that loan it out to the 4 month notice people for 3 years.

B - if they would sign now and pay 6 weeks deposit now, non-returnable if they changed their minds in the next 4 months.

I think whitetiger's got the right idea! Failing that, definitley go for the second offer.

On the face it of it if it were a property that I was happy and confident in owning for a long time then I would probably plump for Family B , taking into account that they would have far more rights as sitting tenants, and that the terms of some Buy to Let mortgages will not allow you to sign any up for any agreement longer than 12 months.

If those things don't apply to you and you can afford to wait the extra time, then go for Family B.

Thanks for the replies. Mr P thinks I am a complete idiot for even viewing this house when we are tied into ours until February but they rarely come up where we are and its the type of house we wanted initially

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