Har har. We negotiated one week of help. The PO's showed up late the first day, later the second day and 'called in sick' the third day. They basically told us we were doing everything wrong, insulted Gomez and called him names in front of guests, schmoozed with guests when they should have been showing us what to do and left us to decorate the entire inn for a holiday weekend with 2 days' notice. THEY organized a holiday event to take place here and then left us holding the bag.
The innkeepers' qtrs were filthy, we had to clean top to bottom before we could even move in. The inn kitchen was a disaster, nothing left behind worked right and they left us with a broken shovel in winter. We couldn't even iron anything, we had a travel iron and that was it.
So, all of that off my chest- please, whatever you do, don't leave the new innkeepers in the lurch. Make sure they have the basic necessities to get started or at least give them a list of what they need to bring with them. ASK what they think they need, they will probably just want to do it all on their own anyway. I'd say give them 2 solid days of help and then wish them well and get on with your new life!.