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13 Comments on Why do tenants have to trash your home? pics
I am sure you screened them well....so how do we trust anyone? I guess we can't, we just need to pray a whole lot....
I'm reblogging this to the property management and investor groups.....Many areas of the country would FINE the property owner for trash left in this condition. At many evictions, the court official/sheriff/marshall carrying out the tenant removal is checking that trash and debris will not be left curbside.
Clason, it beats me why some people have no respect for an owner's property. I hope the security deposit will cover the damage.
As a fellow landlord I truly feel your pain. This is as much a commentary on todays society as any thing else. There is just a tremendous lack of respect on so many levels.
I have gone through this with tenets in the past. I just don't understand it either.
There is an old saying, what do you call a person who cannot qualify for a mortgage? A Renter. That has some bearing on this situation. I too am often disgusted by what I find in rentals after I have to evict. My mother would call them 'pigs' and say that they needed to live on a hog farm. I am not so sure that she is not right. There is a basic lack of common decency, and sense of orgainization. At one time, there used to be home economics classes in high schools, but those seem to be absent in current schools. When I was in school, if you took a home ec class, you had to learn to do laundry, wash dishes, cook, balance a check book, and keep a clean house. Somewhere along the line these fell down the importance scale, and took a back seat to useless classes like 'child psychology' and other garbage.
My last eviction was disgusting. I had to have the plumber remove and replace a 10 foot section of pipes because the drain was clogged solid with grease. The toilets had plastic caps from hairspray flushed down them. There was a half inch thick film of grease behind the stove and refrigerator. The carpets were soiled. The walls had feces on them. There was moldy wet clothing left in the dryer. We removed 25 large black plastic bags of garbage, and other broken furniture. I could go on and on. I have long since advocated for a basic ordinance for renters that teaches them 'How to live in a house'. Many of these people live with such dirty, filthy life styles, then they get sick and go on State assistance because of their poor health.
Clason....at one time, I owned 23 units.....I do not miss those days.....if you gave me a rental property for free, I would not accept it....good luck.
I had a duplex up in Redmond OR and only made it up to see it a couple of times. It had trash out in the driveway that fell out of cars. Cans and things like that. There was also a leak that nobody bothered to say anything about and caused some excess mildew.
It really makes no sense that people have such a luck of respect for other peoples properties!
Thank you everyone for all the comments.
Michael sounds like you had a miserable time my goodness.
Wallace I called immediately on the trash and had them come out as the home is in my name and I did not want the area to look like that. I went into the home with my wife and we cleaned, fixed, painted, and many other things for days while I lost rent.
Barb I have learned my lessons too, these take up so much time especially when you have to take a renter to court for no payment. To have to sit around for a day is painfull.
This is the reason 1st / last and cleaning deposits are so important.
Most often renters flee without paying their last month of rent, so the deposit is usually far short of what is owed. If you require first and last months rent as well as a damage deposit, no one can afford that much up front.
The real solution is for states to make trashing homes illegal! It should be considered criminal property damage. Unfortunately, in many states, tenants are exempt from being charged with criminal property damage by a landlord. It's not fair, and it's not right.
My husband and I are pretty much getting out of the rental business due to tenants well aware that they can trash houses with only civil actions being the result. I think too many times people blame the landlords even though the landlords had nothing to do with it. All they did was try to recoup expenses or earn a little extra money. It's the tenants that actually commit the crimes and cause the damage, so they should be the ones punished.
We are suing our former tenants. They did about 25 to 30 thousand dollars worth of damage to our home. It was amazing how filfthy they lived and truly shocking. They seemed so much better when we first rented to them and they were an educated, professional couple with very cute children. The property management company we hired ripped us off, also, and did nothing to protect our home. Never, ever will we rent out another home. Values have gone by the wayside!