What's the best (or Worst) repairs you've seen tenants make?

[Jason Gott]

So I just had a call from my plumber,  I asked him to go check out a water leak on a home that I am selling under contract.  Now before everyone jumps on me about, "If you sold under contract why are YOU making repairs?". One, I'm a nice guy (for the most part). Two, they just bought the house from me and I literally just got it the day before and didn't get the chance to make hardly any repairs. I felt justified (nice guy).

Here's how it all went down.

I went to the house before because the new owners said there was water in front of the sink and they are not mechanically inclined at all.  I found the dishwasher was leaking, so I pulled the dishwasher out, pulled the part off, showed them the part number and even sent them a link to the part ($30).

A few weeks goes by and again they called and said the floor was still wet and that they fixed the dishwasher!  This is when I called my plumber to have him check.  He called me soon after and said, "The dishwasher was still leaking, but the owner told me he fixed it, he's not sure how it could still be leaking!  I checked under the dishwasher and there it was, the most glorious attempt to fix a dishwasher I have ever seen!  FLEX-SEAL!".  No lie, the new owner flex sealed the entire underside of the dishwasher!  HAHAHA!  Well at least he tried.

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[Dave Van Horn]

Yeesh! That's rough.

Well, I once had a tenant put in a parquet floor in their foyer without so much as asking me (or even telling me) and they sent me a HUGE bill right after. I was like "I don't remember asking you to do that?" And this wasn't exactly a nice rental in a nice neighborhood either, so not sure that type of floor was quite justified. 

On the flip side of that, I actually I had a guy in a Rent-To-Own of mine put in brand new kitchen and he never ended up buying the property. He just left me with a nice kitchen! Guess it evens out!