Posted by JerryS on June 07, 2011 at 21:38:08 from (66.157.164.58):
In Reply to: Next posted by ILLEFTY on June 07, 2011 at 09:56:01:
For years I had two rent houses in the inner city. Nice houses; I had lived in one myself. I had scraped and painted both, inside and out. Was fortunate to have ‘good’ renters first few years, but my luck finally changed. As the houses got scruffier they became harder to rent to ‘good’ renters. The better of the houses was a really attractive craftsman-style bungalow; oak floors, large nine-light windows, glass door knobs, stainless built-in range and oven, two baths, etc. When it became empty I went back in and really spruced it up. Woman answered my ad, said she wanted to rent the house for “Mama” , a retired school teacher. Next month when I went to collect the rent from “Mama”, I discovered she was sharing the house with the daughter, two adult men (brothers, I think), and three small boys under age 10. She paid the rent on time, though the checks occasionally bounced but over time I noticed she never asked me to fix anything. When I finally had to kick this mob out (another story there) nobody on this board can imagine what this house looked like on the inside. For one thing, they left behind all of their worthless junk, clothes and “furniture”. I filled 25 big black garbage bags with just the loose trash left on the floor. Broken windows and doors; the oak floors had deep gouges over nearly every square inch. A layer of grime on everything. Turned out that they had not had gas or electricity for four or five months. They were cooking in the dining room on a charcoal grill, charring a large circle in the oak floor. Every drain in the house was stopped up. Stunk to high heaven. I do not know how in the hell they managed to all live together in that filth. The story does have a happy ending: out of the blue one day a realtor called and asked me how much I wanted for my property---key word “wanted”. I told her. There’s a six-story hotel sitting there now.
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