I feel bad for these landlords as I know what they are going thru. Some people just suck. They don't own it, so they don't care.

If being a landlord is so bad, why do people do it? I guess, overall, the money makes it worthwhile because everyone knows this is the risk you take, yet plenty of people make property their first choice in investments.

This is why landlords ask for first-last-and-security up front. Because a55hole renters like these destroy property. Honestly, I don't know how anyone could even live in these conditions.

Wow. I rent a council house and keep it in better condition than these places. What is wrong with some people??

No one on here going to say the obvious WHY DIDNT THEY DO INSPECTIONS? Total time rented they never sent in bug prevention? They never went in to change filters? I find that very hard to believe. Slumlords rent out slums.

Unfortunately because of our bad credit and other issues we always get stuck with slumlords. And to be honest I can't stand a messy home. We even rented from a realtor and they where just as bad. So bad that my young son ended up in the hospital with breathing problems due to black mold they refused to do anything about. The basement flooded when it rained and caused lots of black mold. Month after month all I ever heard was we will fix it. Now I'm being sued for breaking my lease to move to something better and unfortunately ended up with just another slumlord. The positive thing is my husband fixed most of the c**p that was destroyed in the new place. We both work and have a disabled son so it's rough. As for the old landlord as soon as we moved out they remodeled and fixed the problem and sold the house. I loved that house and took very good care of it but my son is more important. I would never dream of leaving a home like this.

I would love to see a post about slumlords.

I work in the mortgage industry, and the one property inspection report that I'll never forget is a property in NY after foreclosure on a hoarder. In addition to the entire property being completely full of garbage, they also had at least ten of those 12 gallon buckets (about 45 liters per bucket, or over 450 liters in total, for my metric friends) that were overflowing with dried out turds. Still not sure if they were cat/dog/human turds, or a mixed assortment. I can't imagine the smell 🤮

1. Do not rent out your property privately. 2. Be sure to take out 'rental' insurance.

What I don't understand is how people CHOOSE to live like this?! Some of these places are absolutely disgusting. I can't even imagine the smell. I'm sure most never had guests.

Landlords could just.. you know.. *sell* the properties they don't live in. No fuss with evictions that way either. Don't let these posts fool you, landlords are landlords because it makes them quite a bit of money, why else would they not just take the lump sum of selling the property itself?

I'm astounded by how many landlords don't know their rights/responsibilities. I assumed the lease on a house my sister rented (I am the ideal tenant, btw) and 3 years later sent in my notice that I would be moving on X date. Since first, last & deposit had been made I didn't pay that month's rent. Landlord shows up at 10:00 on a Sunday night telling me he's going to evict me (we were already in the process of moving) & will be back with the Sheriff the next day. I informed him of how eviction laws actually work in WA state - he has to take me to court, prove his case & a judge has to sign an eviction notice, THEN I would have 3-7 days to vacate before the Sheriff would even stop by. I also told him he could kiss my sweet white a$$ before slamming the door in his face.

I worked in real estate and had an agent that was a landlord. He was VERY picky and put in his rental contracts that he would visit every other month, with a call on the first of the month to let them know the date and time he would visit. He never had an issue with renters ruining the house. Now I know not all landlords have the time for that, but really, being a landlord is a job too. You can't just set it, forget it, and hope for the best.

There was a house my aunt owned and they had a tennant (old man) who wouldn't pay rent. They found him dead in the bathroom days after their last contact (from natural causes) already full body decomp. House became a crime scene. Difficult part is his own daughter not wanting to help clean the house for his stuff, and to talk to her lawyer for money still owed.

I used to own a house I rented out-I'd been left some money in a will and thought it was a good investment. I replaced the kitchen and bathroom, laid new floors, repainted throughout. My first 3 tenants were ok. The last one had good references, paid a deposit and I'd never a problem with her, except she wouldn't let me into the property, there was always an excuse. When she moved out, I found she'd melted a big hole in the bath with a candle after it was knocked in by her cat (candles and cats both banned under the T&Cs), but she continued to use it leading to water damage of the flooring, leaking through to kitchen downstairs. The kitchen ceiling and cupboards was ruined by water damage. She'd also allowed the cat to use the living room as a litter tray-urine had soaked and ruined the laminate floor and underlay, as well as soaking into the floorboards leading to damp and a horrible smell. Damage was £3500 to repair, and she threatened me with legal action to try get her deposit back

None of those photos look like my property after renters moved out. Place was so full of used and unused tissues (a foot deep) that the bathroom door couldn't be opened. Thankfully, no significant damage to walls and ceiling.

My parents rented my dad's aunts house out when she couldn't live on her own anymore the people they rented to were friends of over 30 years they got pissed off and painted vile words in gloss all over the walls,ripped the carpets up and ripped down my aunts vintage velvet curtains put them in the corner and pissed all over them some people are vile

In the UK, we have a Deposit Protection Scheme. In theory, protects the deposit and negotiates when there is an issue. My tenants ruined a carpet and refused to pay up. The DPS gave me the sum total of £25 from their deposit, when the repair job came to several hundred. Bloody awful system that completely screws the landlord.