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Give me your renting your house out horror stories
Posted on 12/9/16 at 7:10 pm
Posted on 12/9/16 at 7:10 pm
Thinking about moving for a year and renting our house
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Posted on 12/9/16 at 7:16 pm to Geekboy
Can't afford your mortgage?
Posted on 12/9/16 at 7:17 pm to HoLeInOnEr05
Retired. House is paid for.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 7:17 pm to Geekboy
Tenants. They all suck.
Never take care of the property like you would. No matter how great you start out thinking they are.
Never take care of the property like you would. No matter how great you start out thinking they are.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 7:17 pm to Geekboy
Sketchy guy came to look at renting our house and killed me and my whole family.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 7:17 pm to Geekboy
Pay a friend to take care of the property and pay them a percentage.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 7:20 pm to Geekboy
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Thinking about moving for a year and renting our house
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.
This post was edited on 12/9/16 at 7:22 pm
Posted on 12/9/16 at 7:22 pm to Geekboy
quote:Stupid idea. I'd rather burn it. ..... Thats a stupid idea too.
Give me your renting your house out horror stories
Posted on 12/9/16 at 7:33 pm to Redbone
After six months the family stopped paying rent. Took several months to get them out.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 7:35 pm to Geekboy
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 $$ I ever got from them - ended up evicting them (long process) and on their way out they put over 100 holes in the interior drywall, nailed shut the interior doors and put superglue in the exterior door locks....only advice I will give is to not rent unless you live close to rental property and can keep an eye on things. I have several more bad experiences but that was worst.
owned nice rental house in AL while living in suburban DC. Older gray haired couple driving new Cadillac came to see rental and they decided they wanted to rent it. The man pulled out huge roll of cash and paid first and last months rent and damage deposit signed lease and I go back to DC. That was the last $$ 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.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 7:37 pm to bird35
My parents retired and my dad got a two year consulting gig up north. They rented their house out to a radiologist for $3500/month. They had a freezer in the garage that leaked ice cream in the garage and never cleaned it up. It eventually stained the concrete.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 7:41 pm to roadkill
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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 this wasn't a red flag? I mean come on.
OP, it's not that bad. Screen well and demand a credit report along with the rental application. If they don't know what that is, they fail.
What type and how much are you asking for rent? If you are trying to rent your house for $3000 or something that's a different story, but if it's in an area that needs rentals and can support the price easily it's pretty easy to find and screen good tenants.
If you won't be close, hire a property management company.
Don't let anyone stay there that you can't evict immediately. So if you won't evict them because you like them or care about the relationship, don't do it.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 7:48 pm to roadkill
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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.
And this was an older couple? They were pissed because they were evicted, but did they think they would not.. If they didn't pay?
Posted on 12/9/16 at 7:48 pm to Geekboy
I have a condo that is an upstairs unit. My tenant was washing dishes when her newborn started crying so she went to check in him and walked away from the running faucet. She flooded the unit beneath her and caused $6k worth of damage. My insurance covered but the whole ordeal was a pain in the arse.
Anytime my phone rings and it's a tenant, I cringe because I fear the worst. Fortunately I am putting my unit up for sale next week and I am getting out the rental business. The BR flood made it a sellers market.
Anytime my phone rings and it's a tenant, I cringe because I fear the worst. Fortunately I am putting my unit up for sale next week and I am getting out the rental business. The BR flood made it a sellers market.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 7:53 pm to Geekboy
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. 
Posted on 12/9/16 at 7:57 pm to Tigertracks
I talked to someone who buys and rents houses for a living.
His best advice is to look in thier car and only rent to those with a clean car.
It does not matter if the car is new or old only how clean it is.
His best advice is to look in thier car and only rent to those with a clean car.
It does not matter if the car is new or old only how clean it is.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 7:58 pm to Geekboy
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
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
Posted on 12/9/16 at 8:04 pm to Old Sarge
Wow I would hunt those people down and exact revenge for being animal haters and barbarians
Posted on 12/9/16 at 8:56 pm to Geekboy
The problem is you can't evict them easily. My tenant left and her brother and some friends became squatters. No one paid rent after the first few months. Anyway they stripped the house of anything they could sell while I pursued the legal process of eviction. You can't even evict the squatters quickly.
Posted on 12/10/16 at 12:28 am to Mud_Till_May
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Pay a friend to take care of the property and pay them a percentage
Hopefully your friend is a professions real estate agent with experience in managing rental properties...otherwise I don't see this ending well.
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