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Tenants can be disgusting - Cat pee
Posted on 4/28/26 at 9:43 am
Posted on 4/28/26 at 9:43 am
My parents have a rent house and the last tenant was a horrible. We could have a whole discussion about how my mom vets the tenants but the last tenant apparently invited every stray cat into the house, never changed the cat litter box and the cats pissed in every corner of that house. The cat also got under the cabinets and peed and on top of the cabinets. This is about the 3rd time in 20 years a tenant has left the house uninhabitable.
They've gone through 5 pounds of baking soda, repainted the walls, sealed the floors twice. Gone through every product she can think to clean the house. Does anyone have any suggestions to remedy the smell or find the source of the smell even?
They've gone through 5 pounds of baking soda, repainted the walls, sealed the floors twice. Gone through every product she can think to clean the house. Does anyone have any suggestions to remedy the smell or find the source of the smell even?
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Posted on 4/28/26 at 10:11 am to WhiskeyThrottle
Bleach everything.
My folks had a muslim living in one of their apartments that cooked a goat directly on the wire in the oven and moved out. The grease was everywhere!
My folks had a muslim living in one of their apartments that cooked a goat directly on the wire in the oven and moved out. The grease was everywhere!
Posted on 4/28/26 at 10:15 am to WhiskeyThrottle
Bleach and ozone.
Crazy what landlords have to go through to protect themselves from poor people.
Crazy what landlords have to go through to protect themselves from poor people.
Posted on 4/28/26 at 10:22 am to Loup
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Bleach and ozone.
Crazy what landlords have to go through to protect themselves from poor people.
It's unreal. The houses are single bedroom single bathroom 900 sq ft homes. So they're not going to get high income renters, but it's hard for me to fathom a scenario where I'm even renting a place and let that kind of smell build up like that. This renter was a bit of a doozy. We learned after the fact that she had random bikers living with her, often times multiples. We had to completely gut one of the houses twice now. Wish they would just sale the damn thing and be done with rentals. More headache than they're worth.
This post was edited on 4/28/26 at 10:24 am
Posted on 4/28/26 at 10:27 am to WhiskeyThrottle
It's wild how people are fine with living in absolute filth. It's a mental issue. There's no reason why you should have spoiled food, trash, and animal urine/feces all over the house.
Posted on 4/28/26 at 10:31 am to WhiskeyThrottle
I thought no inside pets was a no-brainer landlord policy
Posted on 4/28/26 at 10:58 am to WhiskeyThrottle
My parents had a rental house in the 80s, and every time they had to evict somebody, my sister and I were forced to go with them to clean up the place. We hated it.
Just disgusting.
They'd wash their clothes in the dishwasher.
We'd find half eaten chicken bones hidden all over the house. And this was universal for every tenant. Chicken bones just squared away in closets and the corners of bedrooms. Piled up in the bathroom like they would just eat chicken while taking a shite.
Once there was a shite stain on the wall about 5 feet up. I don't know if they shite in their hand and rubbed it on the wall, or they got a running start and jumped arse first into the wall.
One time the upstairs toilet was cracked at the bowl, so every time they flushed it, shite/piss water would shoot out, which leaked onto the downstairs ceiling. They never let us know that there was an issue with the toilet in the year they lived there. That was not fun to replace.
Drug paraphernalia was usually found in the bathrooms. Needles and syringes and coke mirrors with razor blades.
When we'd go clean, we were normally the only white people in the area, and it was like an episode of National Geographic, where the natives would all come to see the exotic whites invading their natural habitat.
"Hey mista, you got a solid quarter I can have?" "Hey, I can have one of those cold drinks?" "Hey mista, I can borrow a piece of chicken?" "Whachu doin' over here honk muthafricka?"
It was a nice area when my parents bought the place, but the area eventually turned Section 8.
I think the happiest day of my parents' lives was the day they sold that place.
And I told myself at a very young age that I would never ever own rental property.
Just disgusting.
They'd wash their clothes in the dishwasher.
We'd find half eaten chicken bones hidden all over the house. And this was universal for every tenant. Chicken bones just squared away in closets and the corners of bedrooms. Piled up in the bathroom like they would just eat chicken while taking a shite.
Once there was a shite stain on the wall about 5 feet up. I don't know if they shite in their hand and rubbed it on the wall, or they got a running start and jumped arse first into the wall.
One time the upstairs toilet was cracked at the bowl, so every time they flushed it, shite/piss water would shoot out, which leaked onto the downstairs ceiling. They never let us know that there was an issue with the toilet in the year they lived there. That was not fun to replace.
Drug paraphernalia was usually found in the bathrooms. Needles and syringes and coke mirrors with razor blades.
When we'd go clean, we were normally the only white people in the area, and it was like an episode of National Geographic, where the natives would all come to see the exotic whites invading their natural habitat.
"Hey mista, you got a solid quarter I can have?" "Hey, I can have one of those cold drinks?" "Hey mista, I can borrow a piece of chicken?" "Whachu doin' over here honk muthafricka?"
It was a nice area when my parents bought the place, but the area eventually turned Section 8.
I think the happiest day of my parents' lives was the day they sold that place.
And I told myself at a very young age that I would never ever own rental property.
Posted on 4/28/26 at 11:01 am to WhiskeyThrottle
What kind of flooring and base trim? If it's engineered or solid wood then nothing short or replacing it will work 100%. Bleach, peroxide, etc will get just below the surface but not much else. Drywall wicks it up too.
Posted on 4/28/26 at 12:28 pm to WhiskeyThrottle
not saying the bleach won't work, but we rented a house that had dog pee in the living room and the only solution was to replace the carpet and padding and coat the flooring with Kilz first
Posted on 4/28/26 at 12:32 pm to boxcarbarney
“ I told myself at a very young age that I would never ever own rental property”
It takes a certain type of person to be successful in rent house business…….which I’m not.
My stepson decided to get into rent houses,tried to talk me into getting into it.”Easy money,path to riches!” blah,blah,blah.
He had 3 for awhile,now has 1.Can’t wait to get rid of that one,his tenant is about 95 and he doesn’t want to kick her out.
It takes a certain type of person to be successful in rent house business…….which I’m not.
My stepson decided to get into rent houses,tried to talk me into getting into it.”Easy money,path to riches!” blah,blah,blah.
He had 3 for awhile,now has 1.Can’t wait to get rid of that one,his tenant is about 95 and he doesn’t want to kick her out.
Posted on 4/28/26 at 12:44 pm to Clames
Flooring is stained concrete. Trim is probably composite wood I'm guessing. They're budget builds so they're not anything fancy.
Posted on 4/28/26 at 12:48 pm to Jack Daniel
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I thought no inside pets was a no-brainer landlord policy
She says that when she had a no pet policy, she wouldn't get anyone interested in the property or they'd just sneak them instead. And this isn't the first time pets have destroyed one of the houses. I've told her a million times that she has to basically be a dictator with her tenants but she doesn't have the spine to be an a-hole. She's a nice lady, but nice and landlord don't belong anywhere near each other.
Posted on 4/28/26 at 12:51 pm to LSUA 75
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It takes a certain type of person to be successful in rent house business…….which I’m not.
I would guess that some high percentage of renters are in a rental because of not great decisions in their life. . . Those decisions don't stop at the rental door either. Especially given these rentals are more on the budget side, not necessarily low cost, but not extravagant, and small, her renters aren't the brightest crayons in the box.
Posted on 4/28/26 at 1:34 pm to WhiskeyThrottle
Can remember having to shut down work on cleaning dad’s rental to buy bug bombs to kill the fleas. When they don’t jump when you wipe your legs you gots a lot of fleas 
Posted on 4/28/26 at 1:55 pm to WhiskeyThrottle
Sadly the flooring and 2 ft up each wall needs to be replaced. That’s the only way. Humidity will make it stink again.
Posted on 4/28/26 at 2:01 pm to WhiskeyThrottle
Odoban?
Posted on 4/28/26 at 2:36 pm to boxcarbarney
quote:
My parents had a rental house in the 80s, and every time they had to evict somebody, my sister and I were forced to go with them to clean up the place. We hated it.
Just disgusting.
They'd wash their clothes in the dishwasher.
We'd find half eaten chicken bones hidden all over the house. And this was universal for every tenant. Chicken bones just squared away in closets and the corners of bedrooms. Piled up in the bathroom like they would just eat chicken while taking a shite.
Once there was a shite stain on the wall about 5 feet up. I don't know if they shite in their hand and rubbed it on the wall, or they got a running start and jumped arse first into the wall.
One time the upstairs toilet was cracked at the bowl, so every time they flushed it, shite/piss water would shoot out, which leaked onto the downstairs ceiling. They never let us know that there was an issue with the toilet in the year they lived there. That was not fun to replace.
Drug paraphernalia was usually found in the bathrooms. Needles and syringes and coke mirrors with razor blades.
When we'd go clean, we were normally the only white people in the area, and it was like an episode of National Geographic, where the natives would all come to see the exotic whites invading their natural habitat.
"Hey mista, you got a solid quarter I can have?" "Hey, I can have one of those cold drinks?" "Hey mista, I can borrow a piece of chicken?" "Whachu doin' over here honk muthafricka?"
It was a nice area when my parents bought the place, but the area eventually turned Section 8.
I think the happiest day of my parents' lives was the day they sold that place.
And I told myself at a very young age that I would never ever own rental property.
I laughed way to hard reading this post.
Posted on 4/28/26 at 5:32 pm to WhiskeyThrottle
quote:
Flooring is stained concrete.
Piss will soak deep unfortunately.
quote:
Trim is probably composite wood I'm guessing.
If it's MDF then no chance of saving it if it's been pissed on, stuff soaks it up like a sponge.
Posted on 4/28/26 at 6:42 pm to WhiskeyThrottle
Residential rent homes aren't worth it for me anymore. I would sell that damn thing and get a vacation home to rent out instead
Posted on 4/28/26 at 7:48 pm to WhiskeyThrottle
You need to realize the difference in cat urine and other urine. It crystallizes and is basically impossible to eradicate without replacing sub flooring.
We had that in a home we bought from some old couple that used the guest room as a cat urine spot apparently. I ripped up the carpet and almost puked. Replaced some sub flooring and put Kilz on the rest. The stuff meant to really coat odors.
Before that I tried professional shampooing, ozone, you name it. It actually all made it worse.
From GPT:
Cat urine can leave behind crystals and mineral/salt residues as it dries, along with uric acid compounds. That residue is a big reason the smell can seem to “come back” in humidity or after steam cleaning.
And yes, cat urine is usually harder to fully eradicate than dog urine.
Why cat urine is often worse:
It is typically more concentrated.
It contains uric acid salts that can bind stubbornly to carpet, padding, wood, and concrete.
Male cat marking urine can be especially strong.
Old cat urine tends to get more pungent over time as bacteria break it down.
Dog urine can also stain and smell bad, but it is often:
more diluted
less persistent once cleaned promptly
less likely to keep reactivating odor months later
We had that in a home we bought from some old couple that used the guest room as a cat urine spot apparently. I ripped up the carpet and almost puked. Replaced some sub flooring and put Kilz on the rest. The stuff meant to really coat odors.
Before that I tried professional shampooing, ozone, you name it. It actually all made it worse.
From GPT:
Cat urine can leave behind crystals and mineral/salt residues as it dries, along with uric acid compounds. That residue is a big reason the smell can seem to “come back” in humidity or after steam cleaning.
And yes, cat urine is usually harder to fully eradicate than dog urine.
Why cat urine is often worse:
It is typically more concentrated.
It contains uric acid salts that can bind stubbornly to carpet, padding, wood, and concrete.
Male cat marking urine can be especially strong.
Old cat urine tends to get more pungent over time as bacteria break it down.
Dog urine can also stain and smell bad, but it is often:
more diluted
less persistent once cleaned promptly
less likely to keep reactivating odor months later
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