got some good ones for y'all (have been working property management for a few years):
reluctantly rented a unit in a very seedy area/building to a really nice lady, her two kids, and brother (obviously in some sort of time of hardship to need this place, though the apartment was pretty big/cheap aside from the negatives). she got jumped/robbed outside of her front door less than a week after moving in. i've always suspected it was the inherited downstairs tenants. had to move her to a different apartment free of charge.
went to an eviction move-out in the cuts (one of way too many). met the constable, go through the motions, and meet the vacating tenants (twin brothers, both have what i presumed to be muscular dystrophy) sitting on the floor of their apartment which is absolutely destroyed and not packed up at all. while i wait for their fam to pack everything up for them (probably 5 hours total, everyone's livid too lol, apologizing for these two idiots and such), the downstairs tenant comes up and lets me know that these boys had essentially been running a heroin drive-thru from their front door for the past year or so (like would always have a line status, smh)
another eviction move-out, show up with the constable and moving company, no one is home in the apartment. we go in, everything is unpacked as if no one was planning on moving. movers start taking shit out, i call the tenant to let her know. she calls me back in tears begging for me to give her a few days because she had no idea this was going to happen, never got a notice, her kids this and that, blah blah. gave her the stern no because that just couldn't happen. meanwhile, I find the eviction notice that was taped to her door on the kitchen table on top of other personal paperwork and mail... didn't know. at least I found a pack of fresh dutches on the floor after all was said and done. one person's trash is another's treasure lmao.
actually not a tenant but maybe the most outrageous i've experienced thus far. had a building undergoing serious renovations before renting. a contractor previously working on the job had been kicked off because he essentially went radio silent for a grip and stole a shitload of money. needless to say, this fucker broke into the building, pretty much immediately after a bulk of the work had been buttoned up (including brand new hardwood floors), and went through each unit and dumped what must have been five gallons worth of grey paint EVERYWHERE throughout each unit (5 gallons per unit, 3 total). he also smashed the tiling/toilets/sinks in the brand new bathrooms, poured fucking concrete down the drains, broke a bunch of windows, etc. it ain't always the tenants i guess..
i'll leave y'all with this one. moved a family of seemingly good people in a huge rental house out in the sticks (can't even explain the steal that this was, under $2k each month, three floors, two bath, 5 bed, newly refinished hardwood throughout, new appliances, the whole nine). background/income check em, collect move-in money, and we're off. fast forward six months, no rent has been paid since the initial, no contact can be made with these people. i go to the property. been abandoned, no trace of the people that had moved in, whatever, less headache for me right? wrong. less headache until i walked into the kitchen to find all of the floorboards are swollen as fuck, the bathroom off the kitchen has an ice skating rink on the floor, the toilet is frozen solid, and oh yeah, now it's dawning on me that i can see my breath inside. the heat's fucking off in the middle of January. call the plumber, pipes had burst obviously. check the oil tank, says it isn't empty... weird, why isn't the furnace on then. mess with the thermostats, try to reset the furnace all to no avail. call the oil/heating company to see if they have any suggestions. they send out a tech to help assess the situation. here's the kicker: the oil tank had been filled with rocks... like WHY. WHY?! What the fuck is wrong with people lol
Gotta love real estate though, shit'll always keep you on your toes