Why "just being done" is a legitimate, common reason to sell
Landlord burnout is real and doesn't require a specific crisis to justify selling — tenant turnover, maintenance calls, rising costs, and rule changes wear on people over years, and deciding to exit the business is a normal, reasonable decision on its own. There's no requirement to be in financial distress or facing a specific problem tenant to make selling the right call.
For a landlord who's simply tired of it, the honest question is usually about certainty and speed versus maximizing every last dollar — an as-is cash sale trades some potential upside for a clean, defined exit without another cycle of tenant turnover or a difficult vacancy period.
Selling tenanted versus trying to get the property vacant first
Selling tenanted is often faster and avoids the legal and practical complications of ending a tenancy specifically to sell — some buyers, especially other investors or as-is cash buyers, are comfortable with an existing tenant and rent roll in place. Attempting to get vacant possession first, if that's the goal, needs to go through the RTA's specific, limited processes for ending a tenancy, which take real time and aren't guaranteed to succeed on a particular timeline.
Being upfront with a buyer about the tenancy — lease terms, payment history, and whether the tenant intends to stay — avoids a deal falling apart partway through discovery of something that should have been disclosed from the start.
What tends to matter most to an exiting landlord
Speed and certainty of closing, not fighting over the last few dollars of value, tend to matter most once a landlord has genuinely decided to exit. A buyer who can close without a financing condition, and who's comfortable taking on an existing tenancy if that's the situation, removes most of the friction a traditional listing would add.