Rogue tenants go away “mountain of trash” at property

A landlord was devastated to seek out his tenants induced round £20,000 price of property harm – together with mountains of garbage, canine urine on the partitions, and ripped up floorboards, The Liverpool Echo studies.

A household moved into the semi-detached property at Eastham, Wirral, in February, however when property brokers and the property supervisor inspected the house after six months they discovered lodgers staying with the household and nappies all around the flooring.

The proprietor, 37 12 months previous Aydin Guner, filed a Part 21 discover in October 2022, however the household refused to depart, leaving Aydin and the property supervisor with no selection however to difficulty a court docket order to take away them with a writ of possession.

The tenants additionally stopped paying the hire after eight months.

Bailiff’s attended the house on Tuesday, Might 30, and Aydin was devastated to see how a lot harm had been performed to the property.

He advised The ECHO: “That they had a mountain of trash outdoors which attracted rats. There was a washer that was leaking that had rotted the facet of the utility wall. It was all black and I don’t understand how lengthy it was leaking for.

“The floorboards had been all ripped up, the pool desk was trashed and there was canine wee all around the partitions. The bailiffs stated they’ve by no means seen something this unhealthy.

“The kitchen cabinets had been all chewed up and there was mud all over the place. The backyard doesn’t seem like a backyard anymore, it seems like a wasteland. It seemed like they by no means cleaned the entire time they had been there.”

The owner stated it’ll value him £20,000 to restore the house, whereas he misplaced round £6,000 in hire.

After the catastrophe Guner plans to record the property on Airbnb as soon as he’s mounted it up, a course of he expects to take two to 3 months.