Disgusting tenants

I feel sorry for you,

My brother rented his home out for a year and the tenant was calling every week for something. He wouldn't cut the grass even though there was a lawnmower in the shed and he had young children so my brother had to arrange for a gardener to do up and make sure the garden was presentable. The tenant was destructful but awkward. Wanted imperfections like switches moved a few inches here and there... which isn't really necessary stuff.

But anyway, I have posted before on this kinda thing, I'm renting and look after the place like it was my own too. I would never hassle the LL but some estate agents really don't give a damn, we reported a broken tiolet months ago and leaky roof but the agent wont return our calls.

We tried to find the owners on FB and using the net to let them know directly that their roof might need to be looked at before it costs them big money to fix but we can't find them...

In my experience sometimes its the tenant that doesnt care about the property and sometimes the estate agents can let the property go to shi't too. Its sad.

We rented for 6 years and looked after the place like it was our own. We left, lived in the in laws house for 9 months, and bought our own place, best thing we ever did. Renting is nasty for all involved. When I add up how much we paid over those years.....!!! I went back to the rent to collect some important post, posted there by error, and the new tenant invited me in for a cuppa. F**k me. The place was a **** tip. Material crap everywhere, dog destruction everywhere, up to at lease a meter. No cleaning being done. Garden = ****ole

What annoyed me most about renting that place is our Landlord cared a lot less about the place less than we did. And I absolutely believe that it is the Landlords responsibility to keep the Garden how it should be.

Nino Brown wrote: »

Exactly, landlords details are on your lease, give them to the supplier, and request a confirmation and final bill be forwarded to your new address.

You cannot sign someone else up for a contract.:rolleyes:
You call the supplier and tell them you are moving and here is the final meter reading. If there is noone to transfer the bill to they may say they will cut off utilities. It is then the landlord will often put the bill temporarily into his name.

Perhaps I was not clear enough in my post. A landlord who gets a tenant for his house, would be very silly not to take the time to ring ESB, who-ever, along with the tenant (in his presence) and give them the details of the new occupier . Otherwise in 4 or 6 months time, landlord will find ESB cut off, tenants gone, and a bill for 800 euro and a re-connection fee.

I wasn't allowed give my LL's details to ESB. They said, and I quote "He needs to contact us himself."

Anyway this is going off topic now..

OP while I do sympathise you've already been advised by at least two posters to burn the place to the ground so how much more can we help you? :pac:

fussyonion wrote: »

I wasn't allowed give my LL's details to ESB. They said, and I quote "He needs to contact us himself."

Anyway this is going off topic now..

true, I was told the same.

Interestingly I just remembered something..

When I close my ESB account, I opened a new account in my new home.
I still had an outstanding bill from the old property, so even though they closed the account, they forwarded the bill to my new home and said I'd still need to pay that off and then start on my new account.

We into a flat I rent after the tenants appeared to be missing and the mother of the woman rang asking if we saw them. So we went down and opened the hall door. We instantly feared they were dead due to the smell. Went up stairs and the smells got worse and worse.

Called, shouted, and no response. Really thought they were dead and decomposing inside. Went in and the smell was eye watering. Looked around to see if they were there dead. No, found the smell though. They had rubbish bags behind the sofa full of used nappies. Maggots and flies all over the place. So we called around to the mother to say it looks like they haven't been there in a while. Then we see the two kids of the couple in the mothers. It turns out they went away for the weekend to London a month ago and had never returned. Leaving their two kids with the grandmother.

Now this house was also disgusting and she insisted we came in. The smell was nearly as bad and she insisted we sat down as I was about to I see a rubbish bag behind the sofa. There were definitely used nappies in it. My mother sat down and started to say how she had feared they were dead and how they had been putting nappies in a bag behind the sofa. The woman acted as if she was disgusted.

My mam rambled on and I just stopped her and said we are in no position to judge people have different standards but she kept talk to the woman saying how disgusting this was. I eventually just said there is bag of used nappies right behind you. The woman just casually says it is only half full. It was a black refuse sack!:eek:
My mam jumped up so quickly.

Anyway while cleaning out the place we found multiple refuse sack full with nappies underneath the stairs. It took about a month to clear the smell. There were some under the beds too. This was when rubbish collection was free. They just didn't put the stuff out. It would have been easier to put it out than stuff it under the stairs. Some people live like pigs.

There is one tenant I have to call into once a month to make sure she keeps the place clean. The owner of the property doesn't want to throw her out on the street. She can't function like a normal human and claims she has no sense of smell. Strange considering she wears perfume but then again maybe she can't smell that

Absolutely, Arty.

I remember going to view a property and it was one of those viewings where everyone is told to meet at the house at a certain time and view it together.
So, from the outside it looked lovely.

We all went in and we'd only stepped inside the hall and one lady said "Sorry,not for me" and off she went.
We carried on looking and we were just appalled.

The kitchen had exposed cables and wires sticking out of wall corners and from the ceiling, the floor was like a pot-holed road and the living room had CONCRETE floors.

One of the bedrooms was obviously a childs' room and the wall was covered in stickers and the wallpaper was falling down.
The carpets had cigarette burns in them and there was a big hole in the roof
Landlord said he wouldn't be doing it up and take it as you find it.

He wanted €1,200 for the place as well!!
We left the property immediately.