What Bad Tenants do to your Investment

This is what a bad tenant can do to your home.

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[janinereed08]

This has just happened to me, been trying to evict a man who wouldnt pay his rent, he hadnt payed for 5 months but he refused to leave and with the law being so bloody stupid in the uk he had more rights then me! Anyway he went mad last night and trashed my house and was arrested but and heres the funny part, hes allowed bak into my house!! Can you believe it? He was the first tenant i ever had and will be the last!

[remax281]

@janinereed08 People even good people tear up rent homes. They have no pride of ownership and i guess they think it's not mine. They just go from place to place and leave the mess for others.

[PepperPeppermint1]

It is really a mess, however, it doesn't look like they put holes in the carpets or walls or truly destroyed your investment, more like it is rotten to have to clean up and they definitely should have done that themselves. I think you either clean it or get someone else to and go to court for the costs. Probably will need to paint it, can't imagine they kept the walls too neat.

[remax281]

Actually the whole shower had the wall caved in with an old toilet in the floor and there was at least one hole in the wall or ceiling in every room. This house sold and someone is living there now. I wonder what it looks like now.

[princette]

what was the race of the tenants

[remax281]

There is no race in Real Estate. I hope you would not assume that a particular group of people are the only ones capable of such things believe me every walk of life is capable of trashing a rent house.

[douglas787]

I've had some rental homes tore up. I've had tenants that fell behind on rent, I understand that, no hard feeling there. I've had other renters that though it would be funny to wreck things up before they left. Problem for them is, I know where they work and what car they drive. I can trail them to their new home, usually to a relatives house. Then I can take out my frustrations in a constructive way. I can't get compensated, but at least I feel better.

[geddyb]

My mother owns many rental units. I used to have to help clean up after tenants left. I saw places that looked like garbage dumps. Empty bottles of booze, rolling papers, even syringes... That wasn't anything compared to the refrigerators full of rotted meat. She got rid of most of her problems by getting out of trailers and apartments to built new houses. Now, I just passed the bar exam and plan on doing landlord/tenant cases!

[GranadaMarketingUK]

@janinereed08 You should have checked him out. prevention is better than a cure and a guarantor is always a safe bet if its his first rented property. You can get Tenant checks done by Creditsure's Tenantsure service. Tenant-sure.co.uk What steps have you taken to have him removed??

[paulrutts1]

In the UK they can join landlord referencing service LRS networking landlords and agents all work together to stop this nonsence in its track. once they leave a property trashed you can tell every other landlord about it

[atkinson1957]

i have two kids and my place is never neat as pin but cant see how people can live in that kinda filth their a diff between being untidy and be a filthy pig

[sirMAXX77]

oh dear lord! i thought i had it bad. omg the shower! :( i feel bad

[bidefordrfc]

looks like one hell of a party.....

[takewhole]

the bastard law is on the side of a tenant, i am all for bad landlords getting punished but in what way is a bad tenant punished? Nothing, no chance of recovering your rent owed, damage to property. Oh yeah we can keep their 'deposit' or we can take the to court for defaulting on rent - please in the real world there is little hope in getting bad debt and you end up spending more money so its not worth it.

[TheEots]

if it was easy everyone would do it

[shumkoh]

@remax281 not true lots do think like that but my family rented for years and even inproved the house