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Landlord Blues: Renting out the house from hell

I am using this blog to publish extracts from my third book on the subject of dealing with tenants from hell. The aim of the book and blog is to give people an insight into what the life of a landlord can be like and to provide tips for making landlords’ lives easier. This is done by describing real experiences of our worst-case scenarios. This should help you avoid getting into the same fixes.

Harassment by text
Friday, February 7, 2014 @ 9:08 PM

By July, Okie was continuing to be high maintenance. He would harass us with texts.

Okie:

Hi Adrian. Hope you are well. We have some serious leaks in the toilet area, the painting on the wall are coming off and damped with moisture and the water coming from the kitchen tap is not clean. Can this be looked at please? Thank you.

Adrian:

Hi Okie. Am fine thanks. Hope u r well. Steve coming this week to fix leaks and tap.

A few days later:

Okie:

Thanks Adrian. Steve has fixed the things. Could you talk to the boys please? My things I keep in the kitchen shelves and fridge keep disappearing. Just noticed my Nigerian pepper has disappeared.

A few weeks later:

Okie:

Hi Adrian. Please can you send in another Electric jug? The one in use seems to have gone bad it shut down the whole electricity when Jason was using it. Thank you.

Adrian agreed to bring one the next day. Then the following week went up to find the house filthy and spent two days cleaning it.

Okie:

Thank you. The house was cleaned, saw it when I came back. But apparently all my eating items, vegetables and tomatoes in the fridge were thrown out in the bin.

My foods not returned back into the fridge and spoilt by the time I came back. Some were Nigerian foods and quite expensive to get and make here. I have been asking around and don’t know who did it. I am very unhappy.

Okie:

The electric jug has stopped working. Can you change it please? Its light is coming up, but no longer heating water. Thanks.

Adrian:

Ok. It is new so that is strange.

Okie:

Yeah that true. If you have the receipt I guess you can replace it at the shop.

It was relentless - he seemed to think we had nothing better to do than respond to his every need.

 



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