re: Rental property and death of a tenant

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WTF kind of question is this anyway?

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Popped in my head the other day when I was watching some Dateline episode about some husband being arrested and subsequently released on murder charges. I was just thinking of the different ways being falsely arrested can frick you over.

I haven't rented in a long time and I hated the experience.

When we bought a house in the suburbs and left the rental in Memphis, the landlord's manager refused to return my deposit. She sent an email file to me full of pictures of a heavily damaged house with a satellite dish mounted on the railing of the porch.

The problem was that the photos were not of the place I rented. I pointed that out to her and she was embarrassed enough to give me my deposit back. As it turns out, she actually couldn't find anything wrong with my rental unit that a coat of interior paint wouldn't fix. It had already been leased and people were moving in by the time this happened.

I imagine a lot of people can get screwed over by their landlords....but I would absolutely hate to own the property that the manager mistakenly showed me. It looked like it would take at least a week and a couple of thousand bucks to get that place back into "rentable" condition. I can't believe people would leave a property like that.