Tenant from Hell: Renter Apparently Didn’t Believe in Taking Out the Trash

By Alex in Everything Else on Sep 13, 2008 at 8:36 am

Talk about living like a slob! Landlord Chris Dowling found out – the hard way – that a tenant in his property didn’t believe in throwing out the garbage:

DIRTY tenant turned his home into a rubbish tip by cramming it with more than 1000 burger and Kentucky Fried Chicken cartons. Landlord Chris Dowling couldn’t believe his eyes, or nose, when confronted with the squalor the man had left behind.

The mountain of burger cartons, bags and other rubbish in the living room of the £100,000 flat was so huge that Chris struggled to force his way through it. More McDonald’s and KFC cartons were piled high around the bed.

And when Chris made it to the bathroom, he found that the tenant had left a giant heap of cigarette ends on the sink. Chris, 57, said: "In 15 years of running properties I’ve never come across anything like this – and we see all sorts. "The tenant had also been smoking without opening windows and there were nicotine stains dripping from the walls. "It smelled like a giant ashtray. I can’t imagine how anyone can live like that."

Link – via Arbroath


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  1. Scotchdrnkr
    Sep 13th, 2008 at 8:49 am

    I can’t believe it. There is another one of these slobs on the planet. My wife’s ex-husband ifs the exact same way. I can’t stand to even go in his house.

  2. Tim Giachetti
    Sep 13th, 2008 at 9:57 am

    Man, That’s supremely nasty.

    I’ve lived with people that were nasty, but my god, can just image the rest of the house.

  3. LoyLoy Gupta
    Sep 13th, 2008 at 11:19 am

    Mental illness comes in many forms, this is just one of them.

  4. mu
    Sep 13th, 2008 at 11:57 am

    Mental illness, exactly. There is even a survivors group for people with squalor issues.

    http://www.squalorsurvivors.com/

  5. Christophe
    Sep 13th, 2008 at 12:07 pm

    Man at his best.
    Top of evolutionnary chain, baby!

  6. NicoNico
    Sep 13th, 2008 at 1:04 pm

    Good lord. That’s why I refuse to rent out my condo.

    I have a friend whose family rents out properties. They have maybe 100 houses for rent in one town alone. When they have to evict people (which does happen, unfortunately), those people tend to not clean up after themselves. They have a photo album of those examples (yeah, weird, right?), and some of that stuff is just nasty. Of course, they’ve also gotten pieces of antique furniture the people left behind, so it’s not a total loss. None of that really matches up to that mess, however.

  7. nick
    Sep 13th, 2008 at 1:11 pm

    at least he brushes his teeth

  8. mluntzel
    Sep 13th, 2008 at 2:50 pm

    See this:

    http://flickr.com/photos/mluntzel/1784649712/

    This picture is actually my previous downstairs neighbor. Let us just say that there were more than a few cockroaches living here. I snapped the picture and sent it to my mom, to fool her into thinking it was my kitchen (the layout being identical). I know, mean.

    Imagine this place, garbage and rotting food stacked to the ceiling. I’m going to go vomit now, just thinking about it.

  9. Fail Funnies
    Sep 13th, 2008 at 6:14 pm

    Well now, it is nice to see THAT person is squared away. Nothing like making sure that you’r not a big hot mess. lol.

  10. Dianne
    Sep 14th, 2008 at 1:33 pm

    I can understand not liking to clean, as in scrubbing with a brush on your hands and knees. But I don’t get not being able to get a trash bag and throw crap away. I mean decaying food, paper trash, just STUFF. If you ever watch Clean House on the Style Network, it seems like 50% of the clutter is clothes. GET SOME LAUNDRY HAMPERS, throw things in the closet and quickly shut the door. ANYTHING would be better than just leaving your clothes on the floor to walk on.

  11. Walter
    Sep 15th, 2008 at 1:52 am

    Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. WHOA!

    You guys have to also think about the fact that the dude never got one complaint from anybody around him to rouse the Landlord to even drop by once in a while!!!!!!!!!!!! Think about THAT!
    The dude lived there for 3 years without even a sniff or a hint of trouble from the neighbors.
    The dude lived so quietly and peacefully that the Landlord didn’t even have any clue as to what the guy was doing to his property!!!!!
    The place must have never had any plumbing, electrical, roofing, tiling, window, cable, mail problems?????????????????????????????????????????

    FOR 3 YEARS????????????????????

    If you owned a property, wouldn’t you just drop by to check in and see how the place is doing, if it needs any sort of touching up at all?
    The Landlord didn’t even suspect for a minute that there was nothing wrong, just because he didn’t hear from the tenant?

    That is absolute stupidity, all around.

    The Landlord is also to blame to let this happen to his own place.

  12. Ajan
    Sep 17th, 2008 at 8:15 am

    looks like the guy went around the town collecting trash from trash cans…hehehehe!! Vengeance is sweet.. ;)

  13. Missy
    Jun 2nd, 2009 at 6:45 pm

    Stumbled over your blog. Have you ever heard of NoPayTenats.com?


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