Your help would be appreciated.

Base price

If anyone could identify the location of the pictures I would appreciate it.

The back story is - we rented the old farmhouse on the outfarm to a Polish couple. They left the house sometime during Christmas week without letting us know. The house is more or less wrecked with holes all over in the studded walls, skirting boards and doors. The garage is full of rubbish with old washing machines, a treadmill, bicycles, empty gas cylinders, beds/mattresses etc.
Apparently they breed, train and rear bull dogs.

We would like to return their furniture/rubbish and have a chat with their new landlord.

kk.man

Base price wrote: »

If anyone could identify the location of the pictures I would appreciate it.

The back story is - we rented the old farmhouse on the outfarm to a Polish couple. They left the house sometime during Christmas week without letting us know. The house is more or less wrecked with holes all over in the studded walls, skirting boards and doors. The garage is full of rubbish with old washing machines, a treadmill, bicycles, empty gas cylinders, beds/mattresses etc.
Apparently they breed, train and rear bull dogs.

We would like to return their furniture/rubbish and have a chat with their new landlord.

Hazard a guess... Dublin Mountains area.

Donald Trump

If you have an actual image file which was taken by a phone, and not a photo of a photo, then there is a chance that the GPS coordinates are stored in the EXIF data within the file.

Base price

Donald Trump wrote: »

If you have an actual image file which was taken by a phone, and not a photo of a photo, then there is a chance that the GPS coordinates are stored in the EXIF data within the file.

The pictures that I posted are a screen shot of the original pics posted on an Instagram account. I didn't want to post the original pics as it would identify the culprits.

Can you talk me through the step by step process.

ganmo

kk.man wrote: »

Hazard a guess... Dublin Mountains area.

Doesnt look familiar to me. Fairly distinctive peak on that hill though

orm0nd

Maybe keep an eye on the dog section of DoneDeal and elsewhere

Melodeon

Base price wrote: »

The pictures that I posted are a screen shot of the original pics posted on an Instagram account. I didn't want to post the original pics as it would identify the culprits.

Can you talk me through the step by step process.

Download the original image onto your computer somewhere.
Right-click on the file, scroll down to and click on the Properties option on the pop-up, and click on the Details tab on the next pop-up.
If there's GPS data there, it'll show up near the bottom of the listing as basic Longitude/Latitude.
Enter that into Google Maps or the like to find the location on the map.

There won't be GPS data recorded if the photographer has disabled the option on their camera/phone, or if the device hasn't had a chance to get a fix on its location before the photo was taken.

Alternatively, throw the image at one of the many free online EXIF reading sites, like this one:
http://metapicz.com/#landing

Donald Trump

Base price wrote: »

The pictures that I posted are a screen shot of the original pics posted on an Instagram account. I didn't want to post the original pics as it would identify the culprits.

Can you talk me through the step by step process.

I don't know for certain but I think that most social media type sites will scrub it from the file when you uploaded it there. Poster above gave one way to do it. There are various exif viewers that you can download or else sites that you can upload to that it will display the data.

You could always go the low-tech way. Have a friend like their photos and then say "wow, that's beautiful view. Where is it from?" and see if they reply. Or set up a fake account and do the same.

SEPT 23 1989

Put it up on 4chan those lads will find the location in two minutes

K.G.

My six pence worth is draw a line and move on.you dont know what you might be starting into.while you might like to get your back and probaly have rent owing you could be ppening a can of worms. Especially if they know where you live

_Brian

Base price wrote: »

If anyone could identify the location of the pictures I would appreciate it.

The back story is - we rented the old farmhouse on the outfarm to a Polish couple. They left the house sometime during Christmas week without letting us know. The house is more or less wrecked with holes all over in the studded walls, skirting boards and doors. The garage is full of rubbish with old washing machines, a treadmill, bicycles, empty gas cylinders, beds/mattresses etc.
Apparently they breed, train and rear bull dogs.

We would like to return their furniture/rubbish and have a chat with their new landlord.

It’s a pain.

We had a family in, they were recommended by previous tenants who had been stellar. Everything was grand until heir marriage broke up, he moved out, everything NS seemed fine but then stuff stopped getting done. They lived in squalor, filth everywhere, handprints rubbed up the walls, no cleaning being done at all, you can imagine a house with four kids and an adult and nobody cleaned the kitchen or bathroom for a year. The cooker was so dirty I had to throw it out !
Tenants are in a strong position, we got advice and we’re told that the best thing was to play along and get them out as casual as possible. A rent increase finally moved them out, he said they couldn’t keep up rent on his flat and the house.

It took weeks of cleaning, repairs and painting to get the house back in shape, it was disgusting.

I think the advice above to move on is probably best. Allot of people have no respect for landlords property and society is supporting them in that sentiment.

Bass Reeves

K.G. wrote: »

My six pence worth is draw a line and move on.you dont know what you might be starting into.while you might like to get your back and probaly have rent owing you could be ppening a can of worms. Especially if they know where you live

I would not worry about if they know where you live but I agree move on. It's all part of the rental game. There is virtually no chance of you getting your money back. Walk away wiser. I always give notice of a walk through the house ever 3-4 months. You get a good idea if you are collecting the rent if you even look into the kitchen or sitting room. .

If something is amiss wait you chance and give them notice. Last problem tenant I had I gave them.half there deposit back to get them out. There was 2.3 wheelie bins of rubbish a damaged door jamb, rubbish all over the floor of the bedrooms, they just left the ware after the last meal in the sink as well as dirty pans etc.

I now insist on a.minimum deposit of 1k. Even though the rent is only a bit over half of that. Social welfare will only give the month's rent as a deposit but when tenant have to form out some of there own money they are more careful IMO. As well when tenants move in I tell them any furniture there is left after last tenants and if they want it I will leave it there but if not I will dump it as technically I am renting the house unfurnished

Tonynewholland

K.G. wrote: »

My six pence worth is draw a line and move on.you dont know what you might be starting into.while you might like to get your back and probaly have rent owing you could be ppening a can of worms. Especially if they know where you live

I agree. It’s not as if they will back and clean up and say sorry.

starbaby2003

Apparently it’s Tinahely, Glenphilipeen, Co. Wicklow

patsy_mccabe

Angela Lansbury is on the case. They might as well just hand themselves in.

longgonesilver

Domestic gas cylinders??

Yellow valid cylinders and the like have a deposit of 30 euro paid at time of purchase

hopeso

longgonesilver wrote: »

Domestic gas cylinders??

Yellow valid cylinders and the like have a deposit of 30 euro paid at time of purchase

I wonder if these ones were actually ‘purchased’? :rolleyes:

longgonesilver

Maybe not but deposit might be paid out if cylinders were returned. I have four or five knocking around, no idea where I originally pad the deposit but would assume valid would honour it simewhere.

Bass Reeves

longgonesilver wrote: »

Maybe not but deposit might be paid out if cylinders were returned. I have four or five knocking around, no idea where I originally pad the deposit but would assume valid would honour it simewhere.

No, gas cylinders are two a penny around the place now. No deposits are being given back

blue5000

Bass Reeves wrote: »

No, gas cylinders are two a penny around the place now. No deposits are being given back

BP I would draw a line under it too and move on. Get the place tidied up and do a bit of due diligence on the next tenant. Ask local auctioneer for info on people they usually know who to avoid. As someone already said a hefty deposit helps too.

sheepsh4gger

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Put it up on 4chan those lads will find the location in two minutes

We're not your personal army.
It's the OPs fault he didn't vet the tenant.

Waffletraktor

sheepsh4gger wrote: »

We're not your personal army.
It's the OPs fault he didn't vet the tenant.

Your fault you didn’t vet the op?

Stationmaster

Something similar happened me a few years ago. House was rented to a single mother with 2 kids - one of them had special needs. First few months was fine - rent was sometimes a little late but nothing major. I felt sorry for her to be honest and kept the grass cut around the house and other little jobs myself. Gradually over a few months she'd stop coming to the door when I was doing jobs, rent was getting later. Then rent went outstanding for a few months, curtains drawn all the time and no replies to emails or phone calls.

Long story short, I got a phone to say she had bolted one night with her kids and bags. Went into the house the following morning to rooms full of rubbish, dirt and grime everywhere. Sitting room was being used as a house for her terrier which was meant to be outdoors. Place was in an awful state. Was down about 4 months rent and spent another €2k I'd say repairing etc. She had lots of good clothes and toys left too though.

Sold what I could on donedeal and loaded up the trailer with the rest and the rubbish and landed it outside her front door when I eventually found out where she had moved to. The law is heavily weighted in favour of tenants so my legal advice was it wasn't worth the hassle chasing here for anymore. I just put it down to experience and insisted on references, deposits etc from then on (I know, I should have been doing that from the start but I was an 'accidental landlord' and liked to think I could take people at their word!).

Get rid of the rubbish and move on is my advice!