Wow rebbitzen you just flip flopped. First you say, you can l’chatchilah perform bedikah b4 the 14th now you clarify its lechatchilah only if you leave over 1 room for the 14th. So just to make clear for everyone, bedikah is lechatchilah supposed to be done on the 14th (that’s where the ikur takanah was mesukan). Sometimes it may b’dieved (because no berocha can be recited) be done before the 14th (i.e. person won’t be present on 14th), but is supposed to be performed on the last night you are home because Unless you vacate the premises and no one is allowed in, you will need to perform bedikah again on 14th. So in essence your original post is factually incorrect, you can’t have your cake and eat it to, you can’t do a bedikah lechatchilah and then be ready to leave your house at a moments notice. You would lechatchilah need to leave over 1 room for the 14th to make a berocha on. So you would need to wait with the rest of us to get on the ‘bus’.
Besides for the fact that you would not need to do bedika anyway on a house that you are relinquishing ownership. It’s clear from gemorah in pesochim regarding maskir and socher that only in that case where the maskir retains (part/ikur) ownership of the property he may need to do bedikah. It’s clear that a sale or even just being mafkir a property (where no bailus remains) would absolve his chiyuv. Additionally the MB states clearly when you leave a rental property (b4 14th, owned by a goy) the only time you need to do bedikah b4 you leave is if you dont have another place to be mekayeim the mitzvah of bedikah later.
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