A serious vent! Not for the faint hearted!

CKhalvashi

This is not to have a go as any tenants on DSS, as this is the first people I've had a problem with. This is to highlight the problems I've had with these particular tenants!

Just got back in the UK from 2 days is Switzerland (which as others know is a weekly thing) and had OH start gutting a 3 bed semi, worth about £1000/month, but had tenants at full DSS rate (about £847.50/month) for the last year, as they were at risk of homelessness.

I'd had some pictures emailed to me earlier, which show jars and bottles of urine, bags of faeces and mouldy food all over the kitchen and the same in the garage. This property should have been left in a clean, rentable condition on Monday, as we've re-tenanted on Friday. All I am happy with is that the gas and electricity haven't been damaged. :eek:

The property had new carpets and furnishings when we let it, and I'm how facing tomorrow night buying some emergency flooring/paint and am also going to have to completely re-furnish the house. Total income after expenses for this property in the last year is -£5000 by the looks of things!

I seriously need my head examined on this, and feel a little guilty at taking the £1,250 deposit, as it was provided by a charity on a 15% APR interest-only basis. It just feels morally wrong.

I'm literally at the end of my teather atm, and it just shows that by thinking you're doing someone a favour, something like this can be allowed to happen :mad:

Any thoughts on this from anyone?!

CK

PasturesNew

5h1t happens .... then, clearly, you bag it and keep it

Welcome back to feral UK.

CKhalvashi

PasturesNew wrote: »

5h1t happens .... then, clearly, you bag it and keep it

Welcome back to feral UK.

Lol Pastures.

I don't know how it's happened, but it has.....Lovely job after work tomorrow :eek:

theartfullodger

Well, yes, sometimes in business you make a loss. Sometimes your customers are not perfect.

You surely knew & expected this?

How did you reference the tenants?? How often did you inspect & what were the results of the last two?

princeofpounds

I sympathise... I have no idea why people choose to live like this

amcluesent

Your costs are all offset against tax though! Next time, dont rent to Wee Jock Poo Pong McPlop.

abankerbutnotafatcat

I just read OP's words and despair and the scummy people who are out there who have no respect for other people and their things and, worse, that the tax payer is supporting. It's nothing I wasn't already aware of but it just saddens me all over again. And to clarify, I'm a full supporter of our welfare state, I'd rather that 100 scummy people like this play the system than one person who has fallen on hard times suffers as they used to.

Good luck OP. I feel for you and your horrible after work tasks.

Hump

If there were school aged children or younger in the household I would contact the local Children & Young Persons Service at the council (social services) and raise the living conditions as a 'safeguarding' issue as this family sounds like it needs fixing.

charlie3090

i feel for you, i had something similar years ago,2 big dogs left in the house for days after the tenant did a moonlight flit,filth everywhere!.
do you have a forwarding address?,if so bag all their cr-p up and deliver it to them lol.
the sad thing is ,you will be reluctant to consider anyone in similar circumstances who may be great tenants and these lazy,dirty,scummy people have spoilt that.
i hope you get it sorted quickly,
C x

propertyman

This just reaffirms my view that for those that "just don't get civilisation" we need

1: A modern poor house

2: "mental hospitals" where this person can be treated.

There is something desperately wrong when someone does that.


The lesson is inspect your investment regularly.

ognum

Maybe you should consider an unfurnished let. Less to loose if !!!! happens.