Thread: So, you want to be a landlord

Happens, my uncle just had to get some carpet replaced in a new unit because of a crappy tenant.

the pictures you've posted are nothing more than wear and tear... I would be grateful if every tenant left the property in that condition.

here's a real dandy of a tenant who burned out a kitchen, ruined the fire alarm system in the building, kept tires in the bedroom and had vibrators all over the house.

Randall- you win. I could compete with stillworkin but I have never had a burned out kitchen and that much trash inside. I wouldn't even know what to say with a burned out kitchen like that. It is one thing to have trash but it is a different ball game to have a kitchen burned out like that..

Did the tenant just disapper or did you talk to them after you saw the apartment?

I got to say, Randall seems to have one upped you with an abundance of vibrators. Pretty gross if you ask me. You would think they would be a bit embarrassed leaving those behind....

the property manager told me I had to see it for myself and he heard through the grapevine heard that the tenant lost her marbles after family services removed the children from her custody (go figure)

sad story really.... but I did get a hell of a laugh when I saw the place... it's all you can do

oh, and the tenant lived there for another month even after the kitchen fire...

Holy vibrations that was funny. Definitely beats anything I've come across yet with my tenants.

I agree, you did get me on that one. Haven't experienced a kitchen fire yet (knock on wood). But yeah, I just laugh at this stuff. Its amazing how people live sometimes.

Jito, I agree also. They could've taken the vibrators with them.

I will never understand how folks can live like that, especially with kids. My uncle had to change out all the carpet on his rental. Feces and urine. Human Feces.

It's a shame sometimes. Instead of the urine and feces, insert crack pipes and seringes. I threw away a majority of that stuff before pictures were taken.

Okay, I've been trying to figure out if House #3 will be flip or a rental...I'm starting to have a good idea of which way I'm gonna go...

I suddenly don't feel so bad. I thought I was the only one getting schmucks like this!
M&T...

When I was an agent I made the mistake of showing low end, mostly Section 8 rentals one time. The pictures above are about right, talk about holes.

A lot of them had impressive big screen TV's though!

Originally Posted by hatterasguy

When I was an agent I made the mistake of showing low end, mostly Section 8 rentals one time. The pictures above are about right, talk about holes.

A lot of them had impressive big screen TV's though!

You nailed it with this one. My last section 8 tennant was kicked off the program because she didn't pay her gas bill. No gas at time of annual inspection is a no no.

About a week later my PM told me that she went by and she was apparently all moved out. Apparently she did a drive by and didn't enter. Well me and my handyman went by later that day and opened the door to a ceiling that was now sitting on the floor! But, all her stuff was still in there. I don't mean the normal garage sale stuff that you don't want to move stuff, I mean pictures of kids on the wall, food in the fridge, and a big screen TV that Best Buy would kill to have on display!

I didn't know what to do, I couldn't live with throwing out all this lady's wordly posessions, and transporting the big screen to my house. I couldn't turn my rental into a self storage unit either, especially since nobody was paying the rent.

Come to find out, she had driven to another state to get her family to help her move all of her stuff. While there, she was arrested and thrown in jail (I don't know what for). Anyway, her family showed up a few days later and got all of (well most of) her stuff.

I don't think that there is anything that could suprise me on the other side of a newly vacated rental property anymore.

So you guys don't do walk-throughs with your tenants on move-out day?

Originally Posted by PEERless

So you guys don't do walk-throughs with your tenants on move-out day?

It's funny but the times my units have been left a dump is the same times my renters are no where to be found...

Sorry. Dumb question. I was assuming people want their deposits back.

Originally Posted by PEERless

Sorry. Dumb question. I was assuming people want their deposits back.

That is what I thought as well why would people just give up their deposit.

From my experience people who leave their places like this are use to not getting their deposits back and I think when the give the money away they already count it as being gone.