re: Tenants can be disgusting - Cat pee

Fk a rent house. Insurance + slow match

Some old folks in my neighborhood were finally carted away after decades of living in a decent house. Their family came in and gutted it.

I walked near a construction dumpster and barely kept from vomiting. It reeked of cat piss. Can't imagine what is was like to do the demo and renovation work. Also can't imagine getting that horrific smell out even by gutting it.

You can put in your contract that you are the one that will change/inspect the air filter as needed.

My wife and I rented out her old townhouse for a year after we got married. Unfortunately I wasn't smart enough to drop in for periodic inspections. Despite the lease specifically disallowing pets and us verbally telling them no, they apparently had at least one dog in the house that apparently pissed and shite wherever it pleased. The smell of urine was everywhere. When we went in after they moved out I was shocked that human beings were living in this filth. I had to replace every stitch of carpet which had black patches all over them (assuming mold). While hauling the old carpet out the saturated dog piss was squeezing out of it. On top of that, they decided to paint random colors on all the walls as well as an unpainted brick fireplace (which they asked if they could do and we told them no) so we had to repaint the whole place. I learned an expensive lesson about the level of absolute squalor some people are willing to tolerate voluntarily.