BiggerPockets

What is the weirdest thing your tenants have left behind in your property and how did you deal with it?

I woulsd have used a shovel on the toys, I probably would have kept he dentres as a curiosity conversation piece also, but I have to commend you on the excellant recycle of the obese wheel chair. I have never seen one, do they have extra wide wheels and hydrolics for seat support?

So far, it's a used pregnancy tester that was left on top of the medicine cabinet.

I think I would have sent the tooth to one of the cash for gold sites.

found shotgun shells, bullets, knives, 1/4 stick dynamite(stump blaster) and my favorite a tree climbing harness with leg spikes. This was all from one house.

I used to work on the crew of a property management company and so I have seen some pretty crazy stuff. Once we found a loaded gun!!!!!! One time, someone left a incredible 60 inch tv that one of the guys took. But the other stuff we found in the house was pretty disgusting. There were so many unwashed dishes that I think was for months and there was poo in one of the bedrooms. Possibly human... It was obviously a sick cruel prank. Thats what happens when you don't charge a security deposit. I've seen leftover needles and obvious signs of drug use... sex toys...

Ok funny story. Couple years ago when I would do almost anything for cash, I painted a buddy's rental property in an area I was pretty skittish in at night and my only time to paint was through the middle of the night....so I took the shotgun with me while painting. I brought the shotgun home when the job was done.

The place was tenanted and the tenant took off two months later. My buddy called me and told me he found a bandolier full of shotgun shells. I went over to look at it and recognized it immediately. So that's where I left it all this time - in the buddy's rental. :lol:

Previous tenant left a fully operational organ. Apparently it was too heavy to move. Another left a pickup truck cap that was in decent condition.

:cool:

Most of the stuff mentioned above. But also:

A box a bullets, which happen to be 9mm, so I kept those for myself.
Some nice weights. Also, kept those for myself.
Tools. Again, kept those for myself.
Weed and not the type you find on your front lawn. Did not keep that for myself, but one of the workers was more than happy to take it for himself.

There were never any "strange" objects left behind for me, other than TONS of trash. I actually had to evict a tenant who was using one of the bedrooms as her garbage dump/closet. The trash was piled on top of clothing and so on. It was unbelievable, and was time for her to go! This pic gives a vibe of what it was like after she was gone.

That said, when I moved into one of my primary residence properties a while back, I did so in the winter, while there was a TON of snow on the ground. Buried under piles of snow, which thawed weeks after I moved in, was a keg (1/2 full), broken drug paraphernalia, broken beer bottles, cans strewn across the lawn, and the biggie -- somewhere around 100+ pounds of dog poo, which emerged little by little as the thaw came.

It was a NIGHTMARE!

Oh - and they left some nude photos (self) hidden in the cabinet.