Give me your renting your house out horror stories

Can't afford your mortgage?

Sketchy guy came to look at renting our house and killed me and my whole family.

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Thinking about moving for a year and renting our house

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I rented to a friend of a friend.

House had a garage. One day my neighbors emailed me that the garage door was broken. Tenant said someone rolled into it (my driveway was on an incline so this, although possible, was highly unlikely.)

When I inspected the garage door, it was obvious from the break that the garage had been backed out of without opening the door.

Dumbass was an attorney and thought he could lie his way out of paying for it.

I have several bad experiences but here's the worst one:

owned nice rental house in AL while living in suburban DC. Older gray haired couple driving new Cadillac came to see rental and they decided they wanted to rent it. The man pulled out huge roll of cash and paid first and last months rent and damage deposit signed lease and I go back to DC. That was the last $$ I ever got from them - ended up evicting them (long process) and on their way out they put over 100 holes in the interior drywall, nailed shut the interior doors and put superglue in the exterior door locks....only advice I will give is to not rent unless you live close to rental property and can keep an eye on things. I have several more bad experiences but that was worst.

Rented a house to a college kid. I had a good college tenant before, this one was clean cut, intelligent, normal...Short story, he turned it into a frat house. Probably posts on TD now.

People abandon it and left 6 cats in it with no food. They shite everywhere as they starved, as they became more desperate they clawed through the carpet and even through sheet rock walls trying to find a way out. The power got turned off and a fridge full of food spoiled in it.

Had to rip out and replace the carpet in the whole house, fix all the clawed through sheet rock, shoot screws through the fridge door and haul it to the dump(there was no saving it).


Sold the house after that

All the damage to my houses aside, the worst thing that I've ever seen was, well terrible. I had a tenant move out at the beginning of a month who had a dog. I had no idea they moved until they were late on the rent the following month. By the time I got into the backyard to cut it, I destroyed my lawnmower on a chain that was tied to a dog's bones. Awesome stuff...

If you are about to rent a house, prepare to fear for humanity because people suck more than you could ever imagine...

Been lucky I guess over the last 10 years. No major problems until my last tenant decided to quit paying rent after 3 1/2 years staying there. I put up the 5 day eviction notice and she was gone in 3 days.

Rent to girls. I had three dudes rent from me and the toilet looked like it was from a third world country at the end. They destroyed the house and got pissed I wouldn't refund the deposit.

I had a tenant that wanted to buy the house. At the time, we weren't willing to sell.

When they finally moved out, they took a truck and a chain and literally pulled up ever single foundation planting around the house. Trenched the yard and collapsed the lid on the septic tank too.

Treat a rental property as a depreciating asset.