Real Estate Broker · 3412 S. Harlem Avenue Riverside, IL 60546 · Member since 2015 · 6k+ posts · 5k+ votes
5y
@Brett Buck I have inherited a bunch of bad tenants, and had one or two that weren't great that I placed. The most annoying tenants I ever had were an inherited couple in Berwyn. We couldn't do cash for keys because the girl was on house arrest. We needed to gut their bathroom due to a plumbing leak, and needed them out to do this. They had stopped paying and had parties on the lawn every day in a blow up pool which was annoying the other tenants! The story ended well with their eviction. Just keep in mind that this is a business and these kinds of things are just temporary annoyances. Today that building is quiet, clean and performing well.
Investor · New Orleans, LA · Member since 2014 · 1k+ posts · 944 votes
5y
I don't even know where to start, haha!
I've had tenants steal things out of units. Of course, those were always people being evicted or moving out from a Pay or Quit notice. One of those did a "midnight move-out" the day after rent was due. They also owed me some money from the previous month (this was in my early, more naive days of LL'ing). They stole a variety of things out of the unit. Nothing valuable, but just so scuzzy and lowdown, when they already owed me money. And I'd been so accommodating, ie foolish as heck, in being liberal with their constant rent problems. But of all the things I've had tenants steal from me, they PO'ed me the most with an item that had zero value. The batteries out of the smoke detectors. Really?!?! They literally could have killed people. For worthless, used AA batteries.