It's never great when someone moves out - it means time and money. Even if the place looks good, there is always update maintenance that needs to be done. And since we're weekenders, it takes us longer because our time is so limited.
So two empty houses at one time really sucks.
One of the tenants had only been with us a little over a year. Her new husband got a job out of town so they're off to start their new life. She was great - always paid on time and her house was in great shape. That was just some touch up paint and a little cleaning. We got it ready and rented before the end of the month. Sweet!
The other house is a completely different story. The family lived there for about 6 years and were spotty with their rent. It was always kinda shady - the husband would act surprised when we called asking for rent and claim the wife had told him it was paid. Not sure if that was part of the tactic or if it was the truth. We began to suspect the wife had some kind of..."issue" because every time we went over the kids (one still in diapers) would be outside playing unsupervised and she would be asleep. Every time. A few years ago she won $20,000 from the casino (we felt lucky too because they paid several months in advance) so we know she gambled. Not sure if she gambled all night and slept all day or was into drugs. Somethin.
So we knew that house was going to be a beast but we never imagined what we found. This was the nastiest house I have ever seen. Kinda surprising too because they appeared to be clean. The husband was in the military so I thought he would be a little rigid about housekeeping. Apparently he was not.
The floors:
These are real hardwood, not laminate. They used to be really pretty.
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The kitchen:
I have never seen a kitchen SO gross. This is where your food is made...shouldn't that warrant maybe cleaning every once in a while?
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| The grout was originally off-white, see the spot I cleaned? |
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| The back door, off the kitchen. |
But none of that filth was anything compared to the worst...
The roaches:
Roaches! We haven't seen any roaches. Alive,anyway - we've found a ton of dead ones. The house has a distinct chemical smell too so we can only assume in a misguided effort to "clean" they sprayed the house. What we have found was roach poop. Everywhere.
And I really mean that.
Trails of it EVERYWHERE.
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| This is a KITCHEN cabinet! Disgusting! |
You know those wall stickers that are really popular now? Apparently, they're even popular with roaches...
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| Family. A family of roach poop.
I'll spare you the other roach poo pictures.
We've spent the last two weekends just cleaning this crap up. It really stinks too because usually when we work on houses we bring the kids and let them play outside but this house was too gross. No way I was gonna let my babies in there!
Next we've got to get it fumigated and painted. We're looking at another 3 weekends of work, at least. I'll also make sure to post updated photos after we're done. Which cannot be done soon enough!
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