Tenant eviction and bed bugs in one of my rentals!

[Mark Ferguson]

I have 14 rentals now after selling a couple last summer. I have had great tenants and returns for yhe most part, but it is not all peachy! On my 10th rental we just had to evict the tenant almost. We started the eviction, but the tenants moved out before we had to move them out. They got behind in rent and turns out they had bed bugs as well. 

They complained of bed bugs before and we had the house treated for them. Apparently the tenants brought them back and it was no surprise when we saw the condition of the home. Filthy and they mostly trashed the place. 

Yesterday we had the bed bugs killed. A company heated the house to 140 degrees for 8 hours. I got in the house and took a video of the damage. Luckily I bought the home for only $99k in 2014 and it will be worth close to $200k when repaired. It was still a great investment but sad what some people do to houses. 

Here is the video: https://youtu.be/ZRmz1pWV31I