You don't want to know the hell I've been through with tenants like these. Thankfully no one's used bankruptcy on me.
Let's just say, to get rid of someone I actually lied to the potential new landlord saying the tenants were wonderful and I was only asking them to leave because I was selling the place (which I did).
As an example, once these people left, I found they had punched holes in all the walls and used them for trash receptacles, the carpet had been liberally used by the dogs, everything was trashed and to sell the place I had to completely redo the entire house, inside and out, costing about $20,000. To top it off, after I successfully got them out, their teenaged son came back and broke into the place and stole all my tools.
I am no longer a landlord and hope to never be one again.
I looked into this and had the chance to buy a few homes which have seen some very high appreciation here In Vegas. But I heard too many horror stories about being a landlord and decided against it.
I will tell you a story. My dad, when I was a kid, owned about 4 small frame houses which he rented out. Nothing extravagant, but nice, safe neighborhoods. My dad was so nice he hated to ask for the rent when people were late on payment. Many times after 10 days or so he went to the house to try to collect the rent only to find that the people had gone, the place was trashed, windows often knocked out and all sorts of problems. He got out of the buisness when he went over to one of the rent houses and the people who had rented had long gone. There was human excrement in 3 or 4 corners of rooms. They had urinated anywhere in the house the urge struck them. (The plumbing worked fine.) We shoveled the turds out, and wiped the crap up as best we could, and them went inside on the linoleum floor with a garden hose and after pouring lysol over the surface washed it out like you would a dirty garage floor. The carpeting, we ripped up had to have replaced. Several windows were knocked out and a door had a hole big enough to put your head thru. Somehow, this was not what being a landlord was all about in his mind. He sold all four houses at a very reasonable price and stuck the money in Humble Oil and Refinery (EXXON). Seems these renters spoken of in this article have become more sofisticated at gaming the system. I believe if most people do not own property, they will not respect anyones private property.
Let's just say, to get rid of someone I actually lied to the potential new landlord saying the tenants were wonderful and I was only asking them to leave because I was selling the place (which I did).
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That is too pitiful for words.