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Anonymous wrote:I have had Section 8 tenants (all of them) who are cleaner than this, and that is because in order to receive government housing assistance, they agree to regular visits with a social worker (or similar) as well as a property inspector funded by the local jurisdiction who visits unannounced regularly.

Op said they were inspecting quarterly...

Something about this doesn't add up

You really like this thread, don’t you?

The roaches are gone. I had the exterminator back after I had the cleaning crew back to clean behind the appliances.

Place is still not able to be rented. I’m waiting on delivery of replacement parts for breakages.

That’s life with crappy tenants. These pigs were the fifth ones in this particular property and the only ones to leave it uninhabitable. Without government oversight, it’s a risk. Up goes the security deposit and the rent for the next time it goes up for rental.

Anonymous wrote:I have one for you OP. I'm renting a TH that seems to have a lot of deferred maintence issues. It's managed by a property company. The washer died on us (it was very old, trust me) and it took a week (that's five days of not being able to do laundry with a family of four) to get owner approval to buy a new washer and schedule to have it installed. I spent my afternoons (and lots of quarters) at the local laundromat.

The latest one that I'm still dealing with is a clogged pipe somewhere in the TH so that whenever we flushed a toilet, dirty shit water came up through a drain hole in the basement and flooded it. We literally had three inches of fecal water. It's taken six days to get owner permission to get a plumber out to find the clog (because we are not owners we could not schedule our own plumber) and fix it. That's six days of not being able to flush a toilet (or deal with shit water in the basement), take a shower (again, the water came into the basement), do laundry, wash dishes, or do laundry. We have tried out best to clean the water mess but it's disgusting.

So not all tenants are bad -- we were homeowners so we had the shop vac and snake to try to figure out the plumbing on our own but it was beyond our expertise.

There are some really awful landlords as well.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have had Section 8 tenants (all of them) who are cleaner than this, and that is because in order to receive government housing assistance, they agree to regular visits with a social worker (or similar) as well as a property inspector funded by the local jurisdiction who visits unannounced regularly.

Op said they were inspecting quarterly...

Something about this doesn't add up

You really like this thread, don’t you?

The roaches are gone. I had the exterminator back after I had the cleaning crew back to clean behind the appliances.

Place is still not able to be rented. I’m waiting on delivery of replacement parts for breakages.

That’s life with crappy tenants. These pigs were the fifth ones in this particular property and the only ones to leave it uninhabitable. Without government oversight, it’s a risk. Up goes the security deposit and the rent for the next time it goes up for rental.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have had Section 8 tenants (all of them) who are cleaner than this, and that is because in order to receive government housing assistance, they agree to regular visits with a social worker (or similar) as well as a property inspector funded by the local jurisdiction who visits unannounced regularly.

Op said they were inspecting quarterly...

Something about this doesn't add up

Anonymous wrote:I have had Section 8 tenants (all of them) who are cleaner than this, and that is because in order to receive government housing assistance, they agree to regular visits with a social worker (or similar) as well as a property inspector funded by the local jurisdiction who visits unannounced regularly.

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Anonymous wrote:I can't get past "quarterly walk-throughs." I rented for years and no landlord ever required this. If you need that level of control, you're not cut out to be a landlord.

Same. If a landlord asked to walk-through my apartment ever three months, I'd tell them to F off.

Most landlords don't but your lease might allow it. It could also be to your benefit because the landlord might know about problems in the property that show signs of re-emerging and save your the bother of having to move out if an icemaker line breaks and floods the apartment or a recurring electrical issue. If something occurs and you would not allow the landlord the property, the insurance carriers may put the blame on you for not following the lease. BTDT

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Anonymous wrote:Just an FYI for those of you considering becoming landlords around here, and for filthy tenants.

I just had a family move out of one of my properties due to lease non-renewal. I had seen enough damage done to the property while they lived there that it wasn’t worth the rental income. I do quarterly walkthroughs.

I pulled all of the appliances out of the kitchen and found multiple sticky spills that were never cleaned and some type of food crumbs behind and inside of all of the appliances. The oven was such a mess that I had to throw it out. The sticky liquid and crumbs had fallen where they could not be cleaned safely. The interior of the refrigerator was filled with a sticky liquid that they had tried to clean but it had already seeped into the seams of the shelves so they had to be thrown out.

I also found dead roaches in these areas. The property had been treated which is why they were dead.

Tenants- your filth is your problem, not your property manager’s. This place is more disgusting than a frat house.

I'm a landlord, too, and you've got to be kidding me.

Some crumbs??

Sticky spots (that they even tried to clean?!?)

A few roaches behind appliances??

How old was the stove you had to throw away in the first place?

How on earth did you not recoup your money from their deposit?

You definitely aren't cut out to be a landlord.

This sounds like troll bait to me and if it's not, you should get out of the landlord business and get into AirBnB's.

Short term rentals are far more appropriate for someone with such ridiculously high expectations and overwhelming control issues.

BTW, don't bring this to court, the judge will laugh you out of the courtroom.

Signed,
Landlord of 18 years.

Nah. There’s no way in hail I’m staying in an Airbnb with roaches

Anonymous wrote:This is hilarious. I expected damage from a meth lab or something. Sticky stuff inside an oven… you’re not cut out for this. Perhaps invest in index funds.

Anonymous wrote:Crumbs and stickiness are definitely not an issue. Just get a good cleaner