Pig tenants rule!
I'm househunting at the moment which means looking at a lot of places I can't ever afford... however!
I found a place that is within my price range only because the previous tenants were such pigs.
It's a three bedroom place with off street parking and a huge yard, the kind of place I usually wouldn't be able to get near price-wise, but in five years of unsupervised renting, the "people" living there have:
Stripped almost all the wallpaper off (it's hanging in sheets, semi-attached in all rooms.
Ditto carpets (torn up, but not completely, like someone was desperate to see what was underneath, then disappointed to find floorboards so they tried again further along)
Pulled bathroom and kitchen cabinets off the walls (almost all of the kitchen is hanging precariously, the entire benhtop is gone, in the backyard somewhere)
Somehow managed to turn the bath into an indoor aquarium for what looks like swamp life and turds
pulled the shower head almost completely out of the wall (they must have been hanging off it)
Broken windows and replaced them with cardboard, carpet and or plastic bags.
Piled rubbish off the balcony into the back yard (real bags of rubbish, not just teh occasional bit of junk)
Let the yard grow to an average of about 1.5 metres high grass plus occasional mini-forests of bush
Started a fire in the living room (burned floorboards in one corner, smoke damage up the wall and ceiling).
Graffitied the walls (and floors) indoors.
Somehow managed to pull door frames off the walls, exposing the inside of the walls
Somehow managed to convert what was a backyard pool into a weed filled dent in the ground. No kidding, the entire pool seems to have been removed and transported God knows where.
Piles of rubbish, clothes, crap and filth EVERYWHERE
etc
etc etc
Basically they've caused a LOAD of cosmetic damage that means the owner is so horrified they just want it sold. So I'm negotiating a cheaper price.
Thanks filthy bastards!
Oh the funniest part is the main "living" room which is now just a pile of junk with holes through to the outside (kicked through? possibly) has a recently installed Foxtel connection. Which means they were obviously quite happily living in this filth watching cable TV.
( difficultchild, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 2:13, Reply)