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Pee Gate

24 replies

TheyCallMeMaman · 11/04/2022 19:23

I am a small landlord (as in just a couple of houses rather than small in stature!) and I just need a corner of the Internet to exhale and vomit secretly into a paper bag. It's my fault.. I haven't visited in a few months following a late loss and also being very trusting.

I know nobody likes landlords. However I pay all proper taxes and I try to be a nice landlord.

Example, my tenant asked if he could redecorate to his tastes and I said yes and actually paid him to do the work and paid for the paint. I also lent him money to help him move out, which I got back.

Anyway two years later and he's moved out in a hurry for personal reasons. I've just gone in the start the clean up for the end of tenancy.

The place looks really scruffy but nothing major or to be annoyed about. Except.

Several months' worth of mixed trash has been dumped in the garden in rotting bags so that every single one exploded dirty food, glass, cat litter and nappies all over my feet. Why couldn't he put it in the weekly bin collection??

And then I went upstairs. Most of the house is emptied, but one room was not. It turns out he was subletting the room to a friend.

And this friend has stocked up his tiny room with... a hundred 1.5 / 2 litre bottles of urine in various shades of gold to black.

Why? Why? Why?

I've managed to empty approximately eighty of them and feel thoroughly sick. I can't reach the others for now. They're stacked behind the bed.

Anyone got experience of this in friends or family, or in a professional context? I cannot get my head around it, it's horrible. The main tenant had very small children. How could he live with a guy like this? Then again, perhaps it's part of why he left 🤷‍♀️

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MySecretHistory · 11/04/2022 19:26

Was he a Hermes delivery driver
Better to take them home than throw them in the road I guess.

TheyCallMeMaman · 11/04/2022 19:29

I think he was possibly a small time drug dealer. I can understand that but why not just empty it?

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Thesefeetaremadeforwalking · 11/04/2022 19:33

This is one of the reasons why there is a shortage of quality private housing to rent.

Some individuals just aren't civilised.

"And this friend has stocked up his tiny room with... a hundred 1.5 / 2 litre bottles of urine in various shades of gold to black."

I shouldn't worry. If this individual was passing urine that was black it sounds like had a very severe kidney problem and probably isn't with us any more.

I'm sorry you had had to deal with this cr@p OP

Giraffesandbottoms · 11/04/2022 19:34

Can you not call the ex tenant and appeal to his sense of decency?

TheyCallMeMaman · 11/04/2022 19:39

I would, but it's really tricky as he's moved country unfortunately.

Yes, the house will now be sold, which is unfortunate as as I was dragging bags of junk out to put in a skip (cost: £300) several neighbours asked me if they could rent the house.

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Giraffesandbottoms · 11/04/2022 19:47

Jesus. Then I wish you well and all the luck - how absolutely horrible.

chesirecat99 · 11/04/2022 19:49

The most likely answer is his mate was a vile pig who couldn't be bothered to get out of bed to go to the bathroom. If you are too lazy to get out of bed, you are probably too lazy to empty whatever you urinated in.

However, I had a tenant who collected urine to fertilise their tomatoes and left a shed full of the bottles Envy TBF, they forgot about them, apologised and warned me. Maybe he was growing as well as dealing drugs?

TheyCallMeMaman · 11/04/2022 19:52

Gosh it's possible isn't it. When I bought the place there were holes in the ceiling and the gas meter had been pirated because that was exactly what was being done!

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BambinaJAS · 11/04/2022 19:54

Channeling his inner Howard Hughes?

Other than that.. I've got nothing. Thats some pretty bizarre stuff.

Just FYI:

Be careful with the material as it could be contaminated. You really should not be handling this without the proper protective gear

chesirecat99 · 11/04/2022 19:57

I may regret that I just googled this, it seems using urine to fertilise marijuana is a "thing", so maybe I am right...

TheyCallMeMaman · 11/04/2022 19:59

Oh heavens I hope not! Thanks for the heads up!

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DropYourSword · 11/04/2022 20:01

@MySecretHistory

Was he a Hermes delivery driver Better to take them home than throw them in the road I guess.
....and then keep them?!
Circumferences · 11/04/2022 20:02

Oh noo!

This is the worst. I have no advice whatsoever but my partner and I just this month gained our first tenants for our one and only second home, and I feel a bit like you, as in we'll be nice, reasonable people. Not career landlords.

This sort of thing is the stuff I'll have nightmares about! 🤢

No idea what you can do. You're going to really need to air the place out and redecorate the piss room as the smell will permeate the plasterwork.

I hope your tenants haven't got their deposit back.

comealongponds · 11/04/2022 20:03

Never has anyone been less unreasonable! That’s horrific! Not that a bad landlord would be an excuse for being that disgusting, but it’s even worse to do that to a good landlord.

TheyCallMeMaman · 11/04/2022 20:10

Thanks for the kind words everyone, I thought I was going mad!

The very first bottle was on its own in the garden and in a bottle of tango. I thought I'll empty out this old bottle of pop on the grass.

After it splashed on my shoes a bit and the smell reached my nose I realised my mistake.

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Thesefeetaremadeforwalking · 11/04/2022 20:17

OP,
Just be thankful he didn't save his own faeces. Shock

If you have watched any of the programmes on TV about bad tenants this is not uncommon. However, when it happens to you it's a bit of a shock.

www.staffordshire-live.co.uk/news/property/burton-landlord-forced-clean-poo-5812467

TheyCallMeMaman · 11/04/2022 20:29

[quote Thesefeetaremadeforwalking]OP,
Just be thankful he didn't save his own faeces. Shock

If you have watched any of the programmes on TV about bad tenants this is not uncommon. However, when it happens to you it's a bit of a shock.

www.staffordshire-live.co.uk/news/property/burton-landlord-forced-clean-poo-5812467[/quote]
Yes I'm very grateful it wasn't that bad!

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yourestandingonmyneck · 11/04/2022 20:32

Oh god OP, what a mess.

I hope you didn't give the guy his deposit back?

Why are you selling though? Rent it to one of the neighbours that's asking to rent it.

TheyCallMeMaman · 11/04/2022 20:34

Sadly, reader, yes I did. He was such a "good" tenant, always paid, he called me and said he was moving and would struggle with the last month's rent so could I use the deposit? I said yes because I'm daft and nice and I couldn't get over there before the move.

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MrsMoastyToasty · 11/04/2022 20:36

I'd get the property professionally cleaned and take the money from their deposit.

iklboo · 11/04/2022 20:37

Was he a Hermes delivery driver. Better to take them home than throw them in the road I guess

But to keep over 100 1.5 litre bottles of piss in your room? That is far from normal even for Hermes drivers.

Lifeistooshorttocleanfloors · 11/04/2022 20:41

Oh OP. I feel your pain (also a LL, and hardened to dealing with acres of used tampons etc).

EverydayImPuzzling · 11/04/2022 20:44

A housemate of a friend at uni used to pee in bottles and hide them in his wardrobe. He lived in a pig sty of a room. He was an extremely odd person but definitely not involved with drugs. More likely either mental health problems or pure laziness.

TheyCallMeMaman · 12/04/2022 09:32

@EverydayImPuzzling

A housemate of a friend at uni used to pee in bottles and hide them in his wardrobe. He lived in a pig sty of a room. He was an extremely odd person but definitely not involved with drugs. More likely either mental health problems or pure laziness.
I hope he disposed of it all himself!
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