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30 Landlords Describe The Weirdest And Most Disturbing Tenant They've Ever Had I had a tenant tell me when they moved in that they worked for "THE Agency" (meaning CIA I guess?) and make all these demands once they got their key. Like that they wanted new security cameras only posted at one specific neighbor's door (because that tenant was their "mark) and when I refused they hung up obviously fake ones (made out of soda cans, tinfoil & string spray painted silver) pointed at my door. I lived onsite and he started watching me whenever I left or even got the mail. When I tried to take down his fake security cameras, he called CPS on me.

I don't even have kids.

Final score:

180points

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NsG 3 years ago

He took the tin foil off his head to make the cameras then?

102points

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30 Landlords Describe The Weirdest And Most Disturbing Tenant They've Ever Had A family of hippies. And I mean full-on, flowers-in-their-hair, guitar-playing, kumbaya-singing, smelled-like-a*s hippies. I used to manage a complex of town houses, and they moved into one of our houses.

After four days, they threw a huge fit about how they'd had to take their daughter to the ER due to "radiation" from a nearby cell tower. They told us they were moving out immediately and demanded an on-the-spot refund of their deposit.

Of course, I said no and went to check the town house. It was completely destroyed. There were black marks and baseball-sized holes all over the walls. The carpet had been torn up and the entire place smelled of urine and feces (we later found animal feces under the carpet). It was just absolutely disgusting. Quite frankly, I was astonished that anyone could do that much damage in just 4 days.

...somehow I don't think the cell tower was what made their daughter sick. And needless to say, they didn't get their deposit back.

Final score:

164points

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NsG 3 years ago

four... DAYS...?!

76points

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30 Landlords Describe The Weirdest And Most Disturbing Tenant They've Ever Had One of my clients had the tenants from hell: things were going great for a year until they burned the house pretty severely from attempting to make hemp oil. Obviously, after this happened they attempted to kick them out. They refused to leave and even wouldn’t let the contractors in to work on the property damages. Finally, MONTHS pass and they get approval to have law enforcement force them out after not paying rent. Then they could finally work on getting the house fixed up again to rent out again. Once the house was fixed up, the old tenants broke into the home in revenge, poured cement down the drains, and turned on the faucets, thus flooding the entire house. So then comes the second property damage claim on their hands. They do have new (and great) tenants now, and I know they have gotten the law involved at this point, but it’s crazy how some people are so inconsiderate and entitled these days.

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151points

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Cold Contagious 3 years ago

I hope they're convicted for all the damage. That's just horrible.

72points

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30 Landlords Describe The Weirdest And Most Disturbing Tenant They've Ever Had My super told me this story about a guy who was getting evicted in our building a few years back. Apparently he was a real piece of work and hadn't paid rent in months. Anyway, he put off packing until the day before his eviction and left a bunch of trash and had slashed all his leather furniture and left it behind, and glued tinfoil on all the windows for some reason.

The unit was in a real state so they completely renovated it; new tile, new hardwood, new bathroom, the works...but they couldn't get rid of "the smell". A pungent fishy trash odor, made worse by it being summertime, which just permeated the entire unit. Even though it had been cleaned top to bottom, it wouldn't go away.

You know that spot under your kitchen sink cabinet, that flat baseboard-like piece that covers the empty space from the base of the cabinet to the floor? You guessed it, the evicted guy had apparently pried it open, stuffed it with raw fish-garbage and sealed that baby back up as his last 'f*ck you' for being evicted. I don't know what sparked them to check, but it had been a couple weeks before they found it.

Final score:

118points

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Laura Jones 3 years ago

thats awful but clever too

32points

Berniethedog , flickr (not the actual photo) Report

30 Landlords Describe The Weirdest And Most Disturbing Tenant They've Ever Had I had a tenant lock a dog and her puppies in a bathroom until there was a couple inches of poop covering the whole floor and bathtub. We obviously evicted him and called the spca, but that didn't help with the mess.

Final score:

104points

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Caro Caro 3 years ago

Shoot the tenant, keep the puppies ;)

119points

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30 Landlords Describe The Weirdest And Most Disturbing Tenant They've Ever Had Our parents rented a floor of their 2-family home to a guy who was an electrician. In return for lower rent, he did electrical improvements and minor repairs to the house.

All of a sudden, our parents' electric bill nearly doubled. So they called the power company for an inspection and discovered that the tenant had illegally re-wired his connection so that it was drawing most of the current for his apartment from their electric meter instead of his.

They had given him a substantial break in the rent, and he abused their kindness. Dad simply said, "No good deed goes unpunished."

Final score:

101points

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Vicky Z 3 years ago

Did he think they wouldn't find out??

31points

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30 Landlords Describe The Weirdest And Most Disturbing Tenant They've Ever Had Not me, but my aunt rented her place to an old lady who never showered, never washed her clothes and kept everithing she owned in large cardboard boxes. She would open a box, use something, put It back in and tape the box shut .

We talked to her sister and she told us that the poor old lady had became like that after her husband "died" (he ran away).

Final score:

98points

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Kat 3 years ago

Well, some things can totally destroy mental health. A sad story actually.

85points

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30 Landlords Describe The Weirdest And Most Disturbing Tenant They've Ever Had My mother owns a house on the coast she inherited from her aunt and rents it out to people now that she's moved. Makes great money considering it's a decent sized town and the house is close to the beach.

She doesn't allow animals due to the old wool carpets that are not easily replaceable. But she legally can not keep children out.

I didn't see it for myself, but after several attempts to contact the tenants, she drove down there herself and let herself in. Place was f*cking pigsty. Diapers, vomit, baby food everywhere, literal sh*t smeared on the wall and flung onto the ceilings; carpets were soaked and stained with piss. Tenants were no where to be found. She talked to the neighbor and they'd apparently been gone for a month. Had to get the police to track them down.

Final score:

88points

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Laura Jones 3 years ago

often kids in a place can be worse than animals depends on the parents

71points

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#10

30 Landlords Describe The Weirdest And Most Disturbing Tenant They've Ever Had The first time I rented out my house, I was approached by a sweet older lady who had custody of her grandkids (along with her husband) and had bad credit due to "caring for her elderly mother". Oh, and the place she was staying at had a sex offender next door so they needed out ASAP. And of course they didn't have any pets and they happily signed a year lease with me not requiring a security deposit (they were supposed to paint in lieu).

Well, I found out they are chronic deadbeats. Their pill head adult daughter also lives with them and the 3 grandkids and they hoarde animals. They were only there 3 months, but kept complaining about repairs and asking to deduct.

The house was awful and dirty when we got it back. The grass was so bad, I got a letter from the city. There was random broken furniture buried in the grass. Concrete blocks everywhere. I had to replace the carpets due to cat piss and I fought with fleas in my own home for 3 months due to catching them from there.

I closely follow our local Facebook rental groups and i make sure to go behind her back to contact every home she expresses an interest in.

Also I should mention: South Louisiana. You can't even go 2 weeks without your yard looking like cr*p if you don't mow. And we have "super fleas" locally (according to my vet) that can get out of control pretty fast as well. I think using my personal carpet cleaner is probably where I went wrong there.

However, the area they're scamming in has become extremely scarce for rentals--when mine is available, we only leave the ad up for a few hours because we can't handle the call volume. It won't be long before they truly are homeless and will be driven out of the area as we are also in a very landlord friendly state.

Final score:

87points

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Caro Caro 3 years ago

I hope you called CPS.

49points

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#11

30 Landlords Describe The Weirdest And Most Disturbing Tenant They've Ever Had My last landlord had in our agreement a "mold clause" Basically he explained that he rented a unit to a guy and he lined the walls of the apartment with what I can assume was plastic wrap. and got the humidity in the house so high and was growing mold and mushrooms on the walls of the place. So when the guy eventually was evicted they had to gut the entire unit.

Final score:

83points

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Grant Barke 3 years ago

That is crazy.

22points

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#12

30 Landlords Describe The Weirdest And Most Disturbing Tenant They've Ever Had My uncle rented his house when he went to Nepal to get married. My parents and I took the responsibility of collecting tent.

These guys were awful. Always late rent. When we finally got them evicted, they DESTROYED the house in a blind rage. Cat litter in the vents. Holes in doors and walls Smashed the oven door. Threw the microwave through a closed glass door.

My mom was so scared to collect rent by hersel, she made me go with her as I am a larger fellow.

Final score:

79points

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Cold Contagious 3 years ago

I hope they got sued, if assholes are gonna ass, they need to pay the price 😒

62points

#13

I do not have a tenant but my friend here, who doesn't have reddit, is telling me about a current tenant.

This couple, nicknamed dumb and dumber, are helpless. She overloaded the bathroom outlet and flipped the outlet switch. She didn't know all she had to do what push the button back in and she would have electricity again, so she calls an electrictian who warns her it will be a minimum of $150 for him to drive out there and fix this. He walks in and spends less than a second pushing the button in. She then sends the landlord the bill, which the landlord refused to pay. Calls asking who will clean their bathroom, mow their grass, can they come out to flip the breaker box for them, I don't like this fridge...buy us a new one, why is it a big deal if we are late with rent, our washing machine we moved in with isn't working well isn't it your job to buy us a new one, what is an air filter and why do I have to change it, I need someone to hold our mail while we go on vacation can you contact the post office? Two absolutely helpless adults with kids.

Oh, and I had to add this in. The air conditioner fails. She lets them know at maybe 9pm at night. They contact an HVAC repair company who will be out there in the AM. Instead of waiting less than 12 hours, she goes to the store in the middle of the night and buys multiple window units to install at 2am. Which she cannot do, because outlets are too hard for her. She then tells the landlord theyre responsible for repaying her for the multiple window AC units. HVAC guy had the AC repaired in less than an hour that morning. The tenant is still out $400 because legally the landlord doesn't have to pay her for that.

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70points

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Caro Caro 3 years ago

This woman is an entitled idiot.

50points

#14

30 Landlords Describe The Weirdest And Most Disturbing Tenant They've Ever Had We had to evict this lady.

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68points

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Cecily Holland 3 years ago

This is exactly what my cousins rental flat looked like when we evicted two crackheads who didn’t pay the rent for 3 months. Your addiction is not your landlords problem

31points

#15

30 Landlords Describe The Weirdest And Most Disturbing Tenant They've Ever Had The person I was renting my spare room to left this mess, on top of 3 months of non payment and theft

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63points

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MagicalUnicorn 3 years ago

poor fridge :(

17points

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#16

30 Landlords Describe The Weirdest And Most Disturbing Tenant They've Ever Had Not a landlord but was an RA (resident advisor) for dorms in college. We didn't necessarily evict but we definitely saw some stuff when we did the final inspections of rooms after the academic year was over.

In any case, one year there was this girl who had a single room (most rooms were 2 to a room) and she was SUPER quiet. I'd say hi to her in the hallways and stuff but mostly she kept to herself.

When the year was up, she signed up for a room checkout inspection but when I went in, she was already gone. That's not that unusual; sometimes things happen, but usually students will let their RA know if they won't physically be there for the inspection.

I did my usual check of stuff - ok the fridge is cleaned out, nothing in the drawers, etc.- and everything was pretty normal. Then I opened her closet door.

There was an entire freakin self portrait mural covering her entire closet wall...painted in her own blood.

There was a lot of weird stuff I saw as an RA, but that was probably the weirdest.

Final score:

60points

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Vicky Z 3 years ago

How do we know it was her blood though🤔🤔🤔

40points

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#17

30 Landlords Describe The Weirdest And Most Disturbing Tenant They've Ever Had Upstairs carpet ruined with fertilizer because they grew weed in there, wallpaper ruined by pouring ashes from the stove behind the bed, downstairs wooden floor ruined and needed to be sanded, window smashed, one door had a hole in it made with an axe, rent unpaid and loud parties in the yard. Needless to say, we went to court.

One truck driver's family on the other hand managed to turn white bathroom sink and tiles almost black, an accomplishment in itself. Not to mention not paying the rent.

Multiple tenants over the years, from the past 15 years I can count exactly one who paid rent on time and kept the place in good condition. One.

I would sell the damn place tomorrow and quit being a landlord, but I'm not the only owner so it's not exactly up to me.

Final score:

57points

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Kaisa 3 years ago

Why on good god is that person barefoot

51points

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#18

30 Landlords Describe The Weirdest And Most Disturbing Tenant They've Ever Had My dad had a younger women tenant that painted the entire inside of the house shades of pink and always kept 3 pink cupcakes under a glass dome thing on her dining room table, he eat one when they were discussing rent and she got all mad.

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57points

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NsG 3 years ago

Well, yeah - based just on what we're told here, I'd get all mad too. Unless you're invited to, landlord or not, you don't just help yourself to someone else's food.

152points

Cold Contagious 3 years ago

Seriously... What kind of non friend or family members just helps themselves to your food 🤔, especially special cupcakes under a glass dome... That's ridiculous 😒

38points

GlitterQueen541 3 years ago

my thought exactly. What made him think he could just help himself to her food?

6points

Prilsy 3 years ago

My ex had lots of friends who came over to our house and ate whatever they found in the fridge, it made me so mad! Especially as we weren't well off and had a little kid to feed. No idea why these guys felt entitled to eat whatever they wanted.

4points

Id row 3 years ago

You also don't paint the walls of a house you don't own without asking the owner first.

4points

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Kari Panda 3 years ago

I see no problem with the tenant here. She‘s free to like which ever colour she wants. And eating someone‘s food without asking? Yeah, I get that she was mad.

33points

Miraculous Klutz 3 years ago

Here in australia you are not allowed to paint walls without a lot of paperwork and such.

2points

StrawberryParfait 3 years ago

Your dad is a d**k.

16points

Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)

As long as she either paints it white herself, or hires a painter herself, or pays for the landlord to have it painted out of her deposit, pink walls aren’t a huge deal. Sounds like she kept the place pretty nice, even if it looked like it was hosed down with Pepto-Bismol. However, if the landlord just grabbed and ate one of her pink “display” cupcakes (a clue to her level of housekeeping) without asking first—-and it doesn’t sound like he did—-I can’t really blame her for being angry. Besides, if they knew she always had them on display, wouldn’t he even think they might not be fresh—-or real? He could’ve ended up with a mouthful of stale cupcake. Or wax.

14points

Verena Abt 3 years ago

You can paint the walls in whatever colour you like.

5points

Prilsy 3 years ago

Actually you can paint over any color if you paint it over with grey first.

0points

brukernavn340 3 years ago (edited)

*woman, ate

2points

Ms.GB 3 years ago

Those are my decorative cupcakes!!!!

1point

Goth Nurse 3 years ago

"a younger women" - should be a Woman*

0points

PixxelDust 3 years ago

if she always had them there i wouldn't be eating them.... 3 year old cupcakes anyone? 🤢🤮

0points

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Not A Panda 3 years ago

Where I live, you are free (and expected) to decorate the house any way you like. Paint, wallpaper, nothing, your choice. And you don't have to remove it when you leave either.

1point

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#19

30 Landlords Describe The Weirdest And Most Disturbing Tenant They've Ever Had Parents had rental houses growing up. One tenant got evicted and, before leaving, poured wax down the drains and used cat litter in the vents. Luckily, they had free child labor to help clean up houses like that.

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56points

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Hans 3 years ago

"Luckily, they had free child labor..." wait, what the actual heck?

14points

#20

obligatory not a landlord but I did work at a property management company for about a year.

There was a couple that seemed super nice. they were polite and young, literally no red flags. we helped them fill out the application, the landlord told them all the rules (no pets without deposit, don’t break stuff, the usual)

after 4 months of their year long lease, they just left. when one of my coworkers went to check up on them, she found that the house was TRASHED. there was sh*t covering the walls, duct tape over all the windows, needles scattered. there was even a bunch of blood stains in one of the bedrooms. oh and they punched a few holes in the walls and ceilings, and clogged all 3 toilets.

they were apparently heroin addicts, and let their friends use their place as well to do other heroin addict activities.

took a long time to get that place livable again

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Sheila Stamey 3 years ago

How to does one even approach it, though? Needles and everything?

10points

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#21

30 Landlords Describe The Weirdest And Most Disturbing Tenant They've Ever Had I had a female tenant who lived in a basement apartment. We regularly heard a dog barking in her unit. Funny thing though, she didn't own a dog. She had every light in the unit on, 24/7, until she called complaining about not having any power. Went in to check it and she had power. Every light bulb was burned out though. All she had in the place was a futon and Bibles. Bibles in every room, open to different pages. When we finally got her out for nonpayment (of course), she hired a moving company to move her belongings. The futon and a garbage bag full of clothes.

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55points

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NsG 3 years ago

So the dog barking was...?

40points

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#22

30 Landlords Describe The Weirdest And Most Disturbing Tenant They've Ever Had My friend works in real estate, neighbors complain of foul smell coming from one of the apartments her company manages. The tenant is a man in his 30's, nice and proper. Nothing weird about him but the complaints keep coming and they are left with no choice but to take action.

When they finally get in, the place is deserted but there is poop everywhere. Like piles of feces in the bathtub, in corners of the room.... The guy just shat everywhere and apparently enjoyed collecting it or something. It was really bad, and it traumatized all the people involved. The feces had been sitting there for a while too. They had a company clean up the mess and couldn't find the guy if I remember correctly. Weird story...

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54points

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Michelle M 3 years ago

I was eating while reading this. Note: don't eat while reading this.

42points

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#23

There was this one guy, who had a small family as a downstairs neighbour who were constantly complaining about him making excessive noise. Many noise complaints were filed, and the police were called multiple times. Neither we nor the police actually heard him making noise though. And he kept pleading that he always kept it quiet, and that the noise wasn't him.

The weeks went by, and they kept arguing, taking up most of our time with complaints and attempts to negotiate an agreement so they would stop arguing.

We later got a phone call from the mans downstairs neighbour, they were hysterical and told us to come over immediately. When we arrived, we found that he had sawed a hole in his floor, and taken a giant sh*t down to the neighbours living room.

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54points

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago

I decided, after the first time I rented a ground floor apartment, that from then on I would always live on the upper floor. People just have NO idea how f*****g thin some walls and floors can be. Why do you need to blast your music—-with the bass turned up—-so loud the building vibrates? Believe me, you are not “sharing” your music with anybody. Some of us have to get up and go to work in the morning, or have babies who finally! got to sleep. And how the hell can a petite 100 lb girl sound like a herd of elephants walking across the floor? Yeah, I prefer to be on the top floor.

26points

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#24

30 Landlords Describe The Weirdest And Most Disturbing Tenant They've Ever Had Water was included in the rent, so she decided to run a carpet washing company in the house. Ruined the laminate flooring by drying the carpets over it and accumulated a massive water bill.

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50points

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Bill 3 years ago

One of my buddies rented an apartment that came with electricity and he's a licensed medical marijuana grower. The landlord must have been shocked when he discovered the $1,000 a month increase in electricity bill.

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#25

The hoarders. I can’t sort them from worst to...less worse, but I’ll tell you I’ve seen 5 that have used their bathroom as storage to the point that they can no longer use that bathroom. The thing about toilets is that wax rings will eventually dry out and crack if you don’t keep them moist with occasional flushes. Once they crack, they leak into the unit below and I have to be an a*shole and barge into your unit, empty the bathroom, and stop the leak. It was always super gross and I always took a shower once I got home because plumbers refuse to do the empty-cr*p-out-of-the-bathroom job. Understandably.

Flush the toilet you don’t use regularly, people!

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Carol Emory 3 years ago

My sister once complained of a bad smell in the large bathroom of my father's house. My father rarely used the large bathroom as he had a 3/4 bath downstairs near his bedroom. Turned out the shower hadn't been on in months during the summer. The drain (s-curve pipe) had dried up and methane was making it's way from the septic tank into the house. Good thing no one was sleeping upstairs or smoked...... Ran the water for a few minutes and left a note for my dad saying "Every Sunday after Church Service, flush the toilet and run the shower in the big bathroom!" Never had a problem with it again.

21points

#26

Not a landlord, but I worked as a handyman one summer and we had to repair a house that was rented out by college students. We get inside and the place is absolutely trashed. There holes in the walls, in the doors, the windows were broken, cabinets ripped off and to top it all off, the entire place reeked of pee because the previous tenants locked their dog in a small room while they went home on vacation. We put an absurd amount of work into the house over a three-day span. I've never seen a house in that condition before.

But one day we were talking to the landlord and she makes the comment "These were the second-worst tenants we've ever had." My coworker and I look at each other and ask what the worst tenants were, because, like I said, it looked like a war was fought inside this house. She tells us that one time, the house had pretty similar damage, except before the tenants left, they filled hundreds of condoms with water and pinned them to the ceiling. I don't repair houses anymore.

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47points

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Grumble O'Pug 3 years ago

poor dog. I hate people!

6points

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#27

30 Landlords Describe The Weirdest And Most Disturbing Tenant They've Ever Had Glue huffer. I was putting veneer on cabinets with a respirator. She walked into the unit asking where "it" was. I thought the odor was too strong and apologized. She went right for the bucket and started taking deep breaths. My buddy and I both said nooooo in what seemed to be in slow motion. It wasn't her first glue rodeo, so you can imagine how fried her brain already was/is.

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44points

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Cold Contagious 3 years ago

It's hard to accept that ppl like that are ill sometimes. It really makes you want to kick their ass up around their shoulder blades to get their attention but it wouldn't work. It's very frustrating among so many other emotions. It's so hard to deal with, even worse so when it's a issue like these landlords have.

13points

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#28

30 Landlords Describe The Weirdest And Most Disturbing Tenant They've Ever Had Son of a landlord. I was sent to clean out a garage unit for a few extra bucks. brought a guy with me because it was a lot. Turns out the lady who'd been renting the unit had been secretly living in the garage for months. We threw out used needles, family photos, one particularly odd couch that we had to break into pieces just to lift it out of there, and the piece de resistence.... four five gallon buckets full of human waste. We didn't know it was human waste until the last bucket was on the truck and the lid popped off and splashed a little bit. I have never smelled anything so foul.

Final score:

44points

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Buren 3 years ago

Why people are so gross!????? On other note, at least you cut the filthy couch instead of trying to pivot it

28points

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#29

30 Landlords Describe The Weirdest And Most Disturbing Tenant They've Ever Had My older sister and her boyfriend rented out their house when they moved out west for work. After several months of non-payment, the young adult male and female tenants were told to move out. Right before leaving, the smeared feces on the floors and walls, removed every light switch and electrical outlet cover, destroyed the bathroom, and removed the locks on the doors, and left the doors wide open.

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41points

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Michelle M 3 years ago

Seems like feaces smearing is how many tenants show their grievance.

18points

#30

30 Landlords Describe The Weirdest And Most Disturbing Tenant They've Ever Had Our hoarder tenant.

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36points

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Laura Jones 3 years ago

hoarding is a mental health problem

25points

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#31

They used my house as a heavy metal venue. Mid level nationally touring acts were playing in my basement. The next door neighbors never told me because they got in for free

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24points

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NsG 3 years ago

If there weren't any other noise complaints, damages and the rent was paid on time and in full, this is pretty mild.

17points

#32

I had a tenant that turned out to be my realestate agent (using someone else’s credentials), and then stole my identity, bought an Audi and a Yamaha motorcycle and left me with the bill.... oh, and he put holes in all the walls and didn’t pay rent. It’s a longer story than that, but he was caught, and now he is housed in prison.

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24points

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Vicky Z 3 years ago

I want a movie for this one

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#33

Tenant paid deposit and first month's rent. I'm guessing somebody got laid off real soon after, because they didn't move much in. After not paying second month, and not answering phone calls, it was time for eviction (which goes on record). Tenant makes up a story about police saying they couldn't come back after the shooting. I have no idea what shooting they're talking about, but if they can produce a police report, we can cancel the eviction. Tenant goes to perfectly decent house and shoots up the back door. Eviction process continued and I had to get a new door installed.

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22points

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Vicky Z 3 years ago (edited)

Shooting? What shooting? Oh yeah can you hold on a second? *bam bam* There you go!

9points

#34

My dad rented out our old house. He thought he had a good tenant. Tenent even asked to repaint the interior if we deducted one months rent. Sounded good.

Then when they wanted to move out we got a look at the place. When they painted they used the cheapest paint, painted door knobs and outlets and left big paint strokes. Looked way worse than what it must have looked unpainted. And there were large holes torn in the carpet. And none of the toilets worked, they just ran constantly. And they must have hung wet clothes on the bathroom facets because none of those worked and were rusted beyond repair. My childhood home looked terrible and we had to repair.

Oh, the reason we thought he'd be a good tenant? He was an executive hire to run the local hospital. Seems him and his family must have just lived like pigs in that filth.

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17points

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Chich 3 years ago

Was on a fire department. Got to see some "respectable" people's homes on calls. Most were Ok but OMG! there is just no telling what you will find sometimes.

8points

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#35

My friend's a landlord. He once evicted tenants in January after they had failed to pay rent for several months, even though he had tried to be patient with them. He owns several properties and didn't get over to that apartment for about a week. Turns out they had turned the heat all the way up, opened all the windows, and walked out. Cost him a fortune. He tried suing and lost.

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17points

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Cold Contagious 3 years ago

Very sad how vindictive some people can be.

1point

#36

My dad was a landlord and he had to deal with lots of crazy people. I'm not sure about the privacy of most stories but there is one that will always stick out, the man that tried to smoke out his neighbors. A lot of my dads tenants were somewhat out there but this guy was long gone. His upstairs neighbors were annoying him where he actually set his apartment on fire to "smoke them out". It was also supposed to be a suicide attempt but according to him, "It got too hot" so he left. The tenant got sued, but plead insanity so I don't know what happened to him but I remember my dad had to pay all of the repair costs because the tenant apparently couldn't.

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17points

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago

Funny how many “suicide attempts” are survived and it’s other people—-who are not suicidal—-who get hurt, too often physically, but also in other ways.

3points

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#37

Had a druggie dig a hole through the wood floors with a pick-axe and then attempt to flood the hole by dragging a hose through the window. Got complaints about water everywhere, went and inspected. Water running flooding the entire room, all over the walls were what looked like satanic drawing, but on further inspection turned out to be Neon Genesis Evangelion fan art. That was a lot of money.

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17points

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago

WTF? Was he trying to install an indoor pool?

6points

#38

Same as many others. Rented out my house to folk on benefits gave them a chance. Never paid. I had also stipulated no cats as I’m allergic and if I ever wanted to live there again needed it to be cat hair free.

Didn’t pay. Got a cat.

Took months to evict them ended up selling the property they just didn’t give a f*ck

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16points

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Bored Birgit 3 years ago

We also just sold a house (in Germany) because of bad experiences with tenants. Should have been our retirement provisions. One tenant slept drunk in front of our front door several times, one urinated in the whole appartment and you could smell it all over the house, one didn't come back one day and we had to wait nearly 2 years until the appartment was cleared (we paid). Being a landlord is no fun.

4points

#39

Not mine but my Mother’s. She rented an apartment unit to a guy who wanted us to replace the normal toilet with a bidet. As the toilet worked perfectly fine and to rip it out and replace it with a bidet was unnecessarily expensive, she refused. The guy didn’t contest it so we thought everything was fine. Fast forward to a year later and the downstairs neighbour complains of leakage. We check the unit and it turns out the guy replaced the toilet with a bidet himself, only he did a bad job of installing it properly so it constantly leaked. Instead of fixing it, he had let the water accumulate and never bothered to mop it up so the bathroom was filled with stale water, had mold growing in patches, and the water had leaked through the tiles and ruined the floor. He didn’t get his deposit back.

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Pat Bond 3 years ago

This is highly unusual. A bidet is NOT a toilet, it's for after one has used the toilet. How did he flush his "chod" away? Must have stunk in there.

10points

#40

I had a tenet that I evicted recently. They were constantly late on rent. Never paid the water bill. But the I ig on the cake was they said they had no pets, but actually had a dog and a cat. That would have been fine if they told me and paid the additional deposit and pet rent.

The dog chewed up all of the baseboards and tore up and through carpet all over the house.

I went through their Facebook to investigate when pets started living in my unit. It was literally from day 1. I asked the tenet about the pets and they said”no we don’t have any”. I asked why there was a post with a leash on it going under the back door. They had no answer. So I sent them a bill for all of the back pet rent and pet deposit along with paying all the late fees owed and water bill.

They moved out without telling me. I secured the property after they didn’t pay for 2 months. All of the damage was shocking. I’m still trying to collect, but they are doing everything they can to not pay.

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14points

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)

Hate to admit it, but I had two cats, for 5 years, in a no pets unit. However, since even I didn’t want to live in a hairy house that stunk, I stayed well on top of the litter box scooping, the cleaning, and the vacuuming. I put everything back the way it was when I moved in (including their godawful padded toilet seat and matching shower curtain, etc which were some of the first things I changed the first few days I lived there), and even shampooed the carpets myself before moving out. I was present at the inspection before my deposit was refunded. The agent even commented “Wow! Did anybody actually live here for 5 years?” Because the place was spotless, and I had already cleaned the carpet (thereby saving them the expense), it passed inspection. I got my deposit, with interest, plus what it would’ve cost them to have the carpet cleaned, back within a couple days. THAT’S how you leave a rental, especially if you’ve had animals you’re not supposed to have.

17points

#41

One of my residents was a paranoid schizophrenic and thought his upstairs neighbors were whispering his name through vents and gassing him out with poison. When he finally abandoned the apartment, he had filled every possible hole inside the place with insulation. Every outlet, vent and even windows were completely blocked off. He also tore out all the duct work for the A/C and owed about $8,000 in damages.

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11points

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)

Cripes. While I’m all for trying to help people with such issues stay on their meds so they can hold down jobs and live independently, the problem is that our social services sector is so grossly underfunded that there aren’t enough “minders” to meet the demand. Those they do have are so overloaded that they can’t really spend much time with each client, to make sure everything is running smoothly. Unfortunately, many people on such meds tend to get to such a nice high level of functioning that they start to think they don’t need to take their meds anymore. The day they stop is the top of a very slippery slope all the way down to losing their job, their home, their relationships, their everything, and ending up back on the street. It’s a wonderful program, but it is imperative that it’s properly funded.

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Lauren Caswell 3 years ago

Jeez. I'm a renter, but apparently I didn't know I'm supposed to routinely smear faeces everywhere 🤦‍♀️🤢 I honestly don't think I could be a landlord, so much stress! And yes I know renters have stress and bad landlords (I've had my fair share), but c'mon don't ppl grow up? I've been in my rental over ten years! And never in my life felt the need to rub poo anywhere (I really don't understand that. Yeah, it'd be gross for the landlord but surely it's just as gross for the person using it as an art medium?)

23points

Bacony Cakes 3 years ago

Here's your poop roller. Go wild.

14points

Dynein 3 years ago

My parents told me about a time when they were renting a flat and had issues with water/dampness coming from the ceiling. Well, as it turned out the tenant in the flat above them had put a literal *lawn* on his floor, i.e. a layer of soil with grass on top!

12points

Hans 3 years ago

Is this collection really about bad tenants or rather in many cases about people who have serious mental health problems, live in rented appartment, but do not receive the help they would need?

11points

Vicky Z 3 years ago

Still bad tenants though.... landlords have to deal with their damaged property afterwards and cannot really do something about the mental health of their tenants! Some stories were really sad but still belong here

12points

Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

Oh, wait till you have to report the bullet hole in your floor b/c downstairs had a "tiff". That was fun for *our* landlord. Who then yelled at us for calling the cops, b/c it "cost him a tenant". Yeah, these work both ways....

7points

Melissa TO 3 years ago

I lived in a building once where another tenant got evicted. He wasn't happy about it, so he hid a raw chicken in the ducts. His next door neighbor kept smelling something awful. The owner searched the apartment and found the chicken rotting in the ducts.

4points

ƒιѕн 3 years ago

My last tenants didn't trash the house, they just burnt it down. Never again.

3points

Jaguarundi 3 years ago

...and people ask me why I don't have a roommate. These are many of those "good reasons why I don't" brought to life. I have peace, property and pets (3). I have my mental health, physical health and safety to take care of!

2points

chrissy goodman 3 years ago

its things like this that r the reason y me and my husband gladly accepted my in laws offer wen they asked if wed like to live in a basement apartment. they turned the basement into an apartment for us. we dont have to worry about odd or annoying neighbors or have to deal with hoarders, smelly rooms or loud music. its wonderful

2points

GirlFriday 3 years ago

I am a landlord and the worst that I ever had was a tenant that decided to remove the walls between two of the bedrooms. He couldn't even do it properly and just opened up the dry wall and cut the studs. Didn't even try to finish or anything. It was awful and it all had to be reframed. It is the only time I had to sue a tenant for damages while they were still living there.

2points

Vicky Z 3 years ago

I'm in the process of renting a small apartment i own and this post was not a good idea to read right now!

2points

D K 3 years ago

I rent a townhouse. I’m happy to say my landlord was very pleased with how clean I’ve kept the place when he did the first annual inspection recently :)

1point

M M 3 years ago

In the name of all the landlords: Thank you! We all hope people like you are our next renters.

1point

Tiny Dancer 3 years ago

I remember having to scrub one place we moved into many moons ago from top to bottom in every single room. Guess why? You got it, poop! Both the bathtub and the kitchen sink were also full of dirty dishes ... and more poop. It was incredible! Boggles the mind how filthy people can be.

1point

Marcus Lynch 1 year ago

Rented out my first house after I got married to a bf/gf couple who strung me along for years on wanting to buy the place. Consolidated thier two places into one but kept everything and completely filled the basement. So full that furnace and water heater almost set thier stuff on fire. They broke up but all the stuff was still there and the house was falling apart due to their ongoing neglect. Sold the place at a huge loss to an investor who was talking over as landlord an got out quick. The one tenant that was still there found out about the ownership shange when the rent bill was sent and she had to pay someone else. I'd NEVER rent property to anyone again.

0points

Joyce Blodgett 1 year ago

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Celtic Pirate Queen 3 years ago

Just - WOW. I'm a renter and treat this place with respect because it's my HOME (also, I'm a little OCD). When we moved from Seattle to San Diego, my landlord wrote me a letter of reference after refunding my entire $1,000 deposit - after 9 years of living there.

0points

Effin Fred 3 years ago

Sad that the White House staff didn't comment on the previous eviction in this list.

0points

Jo Choto 3 years ago

I have seen enough of what people do, and how difficult it is to legally get rid of non-paying or destructive tenants, that if I ever had that kind of surplus money, I would never, ever be in the rental property business.

0points

ejfs 3 years ago

My parents rented their house out while they were in a different country for a couple of years and discovered when they came back that 1)the tenants had sublet one of the rooms illegal, 2)had repainted half of the house in puke yellow without even asking, 3)had cats and dogs even though the contract stipulated no pets, and had let the animals scratch the doors, the furniture, the floors, and 4)had removed most of the special plants that my mother had put in the garden years ago as memorial plants. When my parents kept the deposit and requested extra money to fix what the tenants had done they received an obviously faked letter claiming that THEY owed the tenants money. They never rented to anyone ever again.

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Andy Acceber 3 years ago

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Pat Bond 3 years ago (edited)

There are good & bad landlords as well as tenants. Quite a few landlords have become that through accident - a death in the family etc, not all are rich and many have their life savings involved. The risk is all on the landlord. Paying rent on time is something you agree when you sign on the line. The renter gets a roof over their head for however long they can afford or want to be there, that's the deal. In the UK there is a deficit of 1 millions homes a year being built. The builders only want to build luxury homes, it's a far more complex issue than just "wealthy" people buying up available properties, laws on buy to let have also changed to make it less attractive to become a landlord, oh and capital gains tax is another turn off for them as well. We've just had a round of property buying due to a stamp duty break on property under £500,000. The results have shown that there were less buy to rents purchased in this period. The government needs to build more council houses so private landlords fill that void at present.

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Lauren Caswell 3 years ago

23points

Bacony Cakes 3 years ago

Here's your poop roller. Go wild.

14points

Dynein 3 years ago

12points

Hans 3 years ago

Is this collection really about bad tenants or rather in many cases about people who have serious mental health problems, live in rented appartment, but do not receive the help they would need?

11points

Vicky Z 3 years ago

12points

Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

7points

Melissa TO 3 years ago

4points

ƒιѕн 3 years ago

My last tenants didn't trash the house, they just burnt it down. Never again.

3points

Jaguarundi 3 years ago

2points

chrissy goodman 3 years ago

2points

GirlFriday 3 years ago

2points

Vicky Z 3 years ago

I'm in the process of renting a small apartment i own and this post was not a good idea to read right now!

2points

D K 3 years ago

I rent a townhouse. I’m happy to say my landlord was very pleased with how clean I’ve kept the place when he did the first annual inspection recently :)

1point

M M 3 years ago

In the name of all the landlords: Thank you! We all hope people like you are our next renters.

1point

Tiny Dancer 3 years ago

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Marcus Lynch 1 year ago

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Joyce Blodgett 1 year ago

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Celtic Pirate Queen 3 years ago

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Effin Fred 3 years ago

Sad that the White House staff didn't comment on the previous eviction in this list.

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Jo Choto 3 years ago

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ejfs 3 years ago

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Andy Acceber 3 years ago

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Pat Bond 3 years ago (edited)

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