Four years ago, when I first rented it out it was all newly finished. Rewire, new kitchen & bathroom, re-plastered, new central heating & beautifully decorated throughout. Early this year, when the first tenant left, it was still pretty much immaculate. Now, nine months later, I receive an anonymous text, asking me if it is available for rent, as it is empty.
What the f...? Call tenant; no pickup. Send text seeking explanation; received text back saying she'd tried many times to contact me to no avail. Funny how, when she blew up the washing machine, broke the back door and flooded the bathroom, etc, she could get hold of me just like that. Funny how everybody else who tried to contact me on holiday had no problem doing so.
Cool as you like she informed me she'd vacated ten days ago, that she'd got a council house and when would I like to pick up the keys? Leeds is only 110 miles from Birmingham, but it took 2-1/2 hours to get there through rush hour, accidents and lane closures. Did she show? Of course not. My reception committee was a pair of sub-human, track-suited, pond scum with overtones of welfare-funded, common or garden paedohilia in the form of a hooded middle aged man with an emaciated teenage kid in tow, who tossed the keys to me from over the road with a cursory grunt...
Their reason for my ex-tenant's no-show? She had the kids 'back'. When she took the place - recommended by previous perfect tenant - she had only one brat... turns out the others have been recovered from the social services lost property shop. To people like this, this is just a normal event. When I got inside I immediately saw the real reason she didn't meet me... dirty protest. (The kids are just an excuse; as easily ditched as soon as a better offer arises.) No wonder I got no notice until the evacuation was a done deal.
To us, the decent, striving, tax-paying fuellers of the economy, Life of Grime was a freak-show documentary about people with extraordinary and slightly amusing mental aberrations. To the underclass of idle, scrounging, sprog-popping, benefit-thieving peasants, it was a design for life. The Labour Party would have you believe that everybody is deserving of minimum standards way above those they have the ability to afford or appreciate. I defy you, after seeing the state she left MY house in to demand anything better than extinction for this breed of animal.
Labour's legacy
I am owed rent. The place needs a top-to-bottom, hospital-standard, disinfectant deep-clean - full carpet & curtain replacement, new shower, total redecoration - before it's fit again for habitation. So, not content with taking our money - she/they lived entirely off the state - she sees nothing wrong in leaving me further costs to recover what is mine to a reasonable standard.
Do I have any sympathy for these generations of 'forgotten' souls? Do I believe for one second that they are the equal of any other human being? Do I think their squalid, mean, existences can be improved and that that improvement would benefit society as a whole? Do I reckon this breed of sub-human is the result of decades of mealy-mouthed, weak Socialism?
What do you think?
Omfg. Hideous sewer rats. My friend had rented her gorgeous immaculate home out, she actually cried when she turned up to find they'd wrecked the joint. Doing motorbikes up in the lounge??? Engine oil pools in every room. Doors off hinges.
ReplyDeleteIs there a law your tenant had broken? Criminal damage? Low life scum. Poor Mr B xx
Laws broken? Yes,the law of common human decency and theft of valuable oxygen. They don't want prosecuting, they want eliminating. But people beneath the level of basic decency are above the law. I will be able to recover nothing.
DeletePs I just nominated you here
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Be a poppet n play along!!
Infuriating isn't it. Fortunately we've been lucky so far (touches wood) with our tenants, mainly by making quite clear that having the place filthy, upsetting the neighbours, dealing modern chemicals et al will result in the shitstorm from hell descending upon them. You also have to lodge their "bond" with a Govt quango thesedays - to stop us unscrupulous Landlords keeping deposits without good reason, sadly there are no such rules applied to unscrupulous tenants.
ReplyDeletePut it down to experience and move on - shit happens and at least you can offset the repairs and re-decoration against the Tax Man.
Dear God, I feel so sorry for you. The bastards! Cannot add to the above but feel the same way.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Monty.
DeleteHire a team of immigrant muslims to arse rape the minging chav.
ReplyDeleteNow THAT sounds like a plan... reckon i can find any of those in Leeds or Bradford?
DeleteSame with my own rental house...on taking it back into possession, it was necessary to wear a face mask such was the smell of the filth left throughout. Top to bottom needed ripped out and replaced.
ReplyDeleteOf course the tenant left to move into a brand new two bedroom council house a mile away. Calling round to ask for final payment, there were four fat smelly women sitting, in a haze of smoke, in the living room, watching big screen plasma drinking cups of tea and having a great laugh, and a bundle of kids with their copious amounts of toys. All new neighbours together.
Disability, rent, rates, new houses, crisis loans, dole, free dental treatment....
Appalling.
The ONLY acceptable solution is social cleansing, preferably via a cull.
DeleteThat photo...is it the Maze prison during the dirty protest?
ReplyDeleteI don't understand how people are prepared to live in their own shit, but apparently they are.
ReplyDeleteA goo many of the sub-human scum don't even know they are less than the shit beneath my shoe.
DeleteOuch, nasty... It is for this reason that I'd never rent my place out to someone on benefits. I know that they aren't all bad but you never know if you've got a wrong 'un until it is too late.
ReplyDeleteI ended up in this situation due to altruistic intentions. That's what you get when you trust people who are prepared to parasitise society for their entire lives.
DeleteI cannot begin to comprehend the mentality of folk like that. As Kenny Everett's general used to declare "round them all up, put them all in a big field & bomb the bastards"
ReplyDeleteOh yes!
DeleteWell despite you now being picky about your future potential clients, it does seem that you were only too glad to accept your rental payments from the State for the previous one, which no doubt went towards reducing your mortgage handsomely.
ReplyDeleteNo complaints there then?
As you have intoned on many previous occasions - Life ain't fair is it? And nor should it be, so quit whining! Take the money and smile - it's tax-payers money after all.
Another pick and choose socialist? Don't conflate issues to construct a non-argument. Me, being pissed off doesn't mean I have changed my opinions. I don't expect anybody to support me, but I also don't need to tolerate what amounts to theft. Read today's blog, but don't worry about commenting.
DeleteVermin.
ReplyDeleteDo Leeds council not offer a guaranteed rent leasing deal?
I use those in London. They have to give it back in the condition they take it. Contract provides for that.
Worth a look.