Not me but a mate...
...who bought a house some years to let out. He did all the work himself brining it up to standard, and he wasn't afraid of hard work, but his tenants broke him.

He didn't mind having to toss out the mattress each time a let was up, or getting through 2 three piece suites a year, or unblocking the toilets on a weekly basis. What did it was a phone call at 2 am from Plod. A tenant was having a major eppy, the flatmates had called the law and he had the spare keys to the room. Turned out she was a crack and smack head. The bed was covered in shit. The carpet was drenched with piss. There was blood squirted up the walls where she'd flushed the syringes. Used tampons everywhere, of course.

The whole room had to be stripped back to the brick and joists, refloored, replastered and new ceiling. That he could cope with; it cost him just the materials and a week's work, fitted in around his night shift. Because the junkie had Hep C, all the waste was biohazard, and it cost over a grand to have it disposed of. Of course, that meant he had to work in a HAZMAT suit. Not much fun in summer.

"Never again" he told me.
(all my scars face forward possesses 2.5% of a hyperalloy combat chassis, Sun 28 Mar 2010, 15:21, 4 replies)

I guess
she lost her deposit?
( Lord Keeps meaning to procrastinate., Sun 28 Mar 2010, 15:25, closed)

don't the other tenants face an obligation,
legally or morally, to notify the landlord of developing problems? I struggle to believe they had no idea.
(The Incredible Sulk Finally remembered his password on, Sun 28 Mar 2010, 16:02, closed)

To be fair
I rent a room in a shared house, and all I know about my 3 housemates is that two of them are a bit foreign, and the other one is so ginger that Ronald McDonald would find it hard not to take the piss.
(SarcasticBarSteward wants to be good at Photoshop when he grows up, Tue 30 Mar 2010, 17:08, closed)

fair enough
I just thought that if "The bed was covered in shit" and "The carpet was drenched with piss", there might be a little bit of a telltale odour.
(The Incredible Sulk Finally remembered his password on, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 6:01, closed)