Just a word of caution to make sure you carefully read the language in the lease that addresses what can happen once you give notice that you won't be renewing and will be moving out. When I rented, I dealt exclusively with the owner (to the point where the property management company wouldn't return my phone calls). But once the property management company got notice that I would be moving out, they were pretty much obnoxious and unrelenting in their insistence to have "showings" for potential new renters (I rented the house based off of pictures I saw on the Internet and didn't see it in person until the day we moved in, so I had no idea rental house showings were such a big deal). They were real jerks about it, and according to the lease, they were allowed to enter the property for a showing at any time, even if I wasn't home. And they didn't have any obligation to give me any sort of decent notice (they called me a couple of hours before they wanted to do one showing only to find out that I was two hours away and they were out of luck). All of the exterior doors all had interior-only deadbolts, and I was the only person with a garage door opener, so I won that battle. Without the locks, though, I would have expected the property management company to traipse people in and out pretty much any time they wanted. I wound up vacating about two weeks before the lease was up, which was as much a convenience for me as it was for the property management company.