Let's hear about the craziest, dumbest, most bizarre tenants you've ever worked with...

[Seth Williams]

I'm looking for some entertaining short stories from the Landlords and Property Managers here on BP.

• Have you ever had to notify your tenants about something that you thought for sure was common knowledge?
• Have you ever been shocked by the lifestyle and/or behavior of your tenants? 
• Have you ever discovered something CRAZY in your property after your tenants moved out?
• What kinds of tenants have lowered your expectations of the human race?

I want to hear about it all. If you've got a bizarre or unbelievable story about some of the tenants you've worked with in the past - let's hear about it below.

Try to keep your posts to a few sentences (i.e. - concise and to-the-point) if possible.

[Bill Bell]

Oh boy, this is great!  

Ok here we go.... as noted in my location badge, I live/own property in a summer beach resort area.  Each summer an influx of eastern European students descend on the OBX for work opportunities and the local businesses enjoy the "work ethic" of the Euro students.  Thus, there are programs in place which match euro students with local businesses for employment as well as summer housing.  

One summer a number of years back, I offered one of my rental houses for one of the programs, given the high income potential for summer premium rental rates.  From the start it seem sketchy.  I was in contact with a mid-20s age eastern euro guy who spoke English well but seem/acted as in a classic TV/movie "Russian mafia" style.  His group coordinated students (who often did not speak English) with housing.  He set my place up with 6 female students (2 in each bedroom) where I provided all furnishings including bunk beds, and twins.  Of the 6 girls only one spoke English, and once they were in, I could only dialog with her regarding rent/activity in the property.  Rent was paid weekly and in the first month all went well (though I could only collect rent at 11:00pm when they were all home from work).  As the summer rolled though, things started to slide downhill.  

The original 6 girls changed, and at times it appeared 6 became 8 or more.  I could not really know who was living there or not and though the one girl who did speak English remained and was my main liaison, it was becoming difficult to collect weekly rent.  Also, all females there were quite attractive, and many males were always hanging around.  At one point when I was there to collect rent, I witnessed a 50-something year old guy coming out of the back bedroom area, and when I confronted him asking "What the hell are you doing here?" he said he was dating one of the girls.  Note, none of the girls were over 20 yrs old!

As it simply became too much to handle, we had to threaten eviction (which my wife successfully handled in person, as it was tough for me interacting with young attractive females casually prancing around the house wearing nearly nothing!).

All in all, when my wife threatened eviction due to all conditions, within two days the house was vacated.  The place was completely trashed from a cleanliness standard and I was actually surprised that attractive females could live like animals (it was not simply trashed during the two day window from the evict notice, but rather longer term disgust with rotting trash, food, etc... nasty!).

From that experience, I have never rented to summer students again and especially  involvement with the "eastern euro programs."

One silver lining for the 80-something next door neighbor.  A few months after the euro girls moved out, I heard that the girls would often sunbathe nude on the main deck in clear sight of the 80 yr old neighbor.  Apparently he quite enjoyed the view, however, his wife did not!

All in all, the "summer russian girls" rental was my most memorable and crazy rental experience!

not very concise, but it is quite a tale!