Recently, foreign media reported a stunned "rogue tenant" incident.
Back in 2011, 47-year-old British brother Phil Tewkesley bought a one-story three-bedroom bungalow in Kendall as one of his holiday homes. Later, due to job transfer reasons, he needed to move to Australia at the end of 2014, and he did not know how long he stayed, and may even settle there for the rest of his life.
But he was reluctant to sell the house, so he decided to rent it out first.
In the end, he chose a couple of three with teenage children among the many rent seekers. At that time, the two sides also agreed in advance that when he returned to China, the lease contract would be terminated, and the tenant would have to move out unconditionally.
(Phil Tewkesley and girlfriend)
Six years have passed in a flash, and Phil's brother suddenly lost his job due to layoffs in August 2020, and had to choose to return to the UK with his girlfriend.
Although the agreement had been made with the tenant at the beginning, due to the new regulations issued by the government at that time, he was also very considerate of the tenant's difficulties, so he gave the family half a year to find a new place to live, so that they could just move out before April 2021.
As a result, when the previously agreed april relocation deadline was reached, the tenant said that he was not ready to leave, and even after stopping paying the rent in June, he did not go for half a year, and still refused to allow the landlord to enter the house for inspection!
By the beginning of this year, Phil finally couldn't help it, picked up the guy and smashed the door open, and the scene in front of him was a shock, so that even he almost couldn't recognize that it was his house:
"I've never seen such a chaotic scene in my life, it's like a roofed dump, the carpet is full of mold, the floor is full of urine stains and bugs, and even some holes that have been bitten by rats!"
In fact, his words are not exaggerated at all, after all, the living room is the epitome of the chaos of the whole house.
According to a neighbor, the tenant had not been back to live here since the beginning of December last year, so he simply changed the lock on the spot and informed the tenant that he did not have to move back!
Then he began to continue to explore slowly, the degree of despair was also a little superimposed, and looking at the chaos of the room, you could probably imagine how he felt...
The laundry room was almost directly "transformed" into a utility room, and there was not even a place to get down...
The kitchen is not much better, full of bottles and cans piled up all over the countertops and floors!
If it weren't for those buttons exposed, I wouldn't have seen that there was an oven underneath...
The same is true in the bathroom, even if you sit on the toilet, you don't know where to put your feet...
There is also a dog cage in a corner, presumably a dog that has been raised before, but now it is also full of debris.
There are also a lot of pet-like things in the room, and there are still a little untreated animal feces, which stinks.
Just as Brother Phil was struggling with how to clean up the house, he was noticed by a transparent water tank not far from his feet, and leaned over to take a closer look.
There was a python about 2 meters long! And it's moving!
Frightened, he took several steps back and quickly called the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) to come and deal with it.
Later, when the RSPCA staff went to the scene to "recycle" the python, they found that it was not the only animal in the house, or even the only snake!
After some searching, they found a total of 4 snakes, but two of them were dead, a scorpion and a tarantula, and now the two living snakes were placed in a special shelter.
Now that the animal problem in the house has been solved, it is time to deal with the mess and damaged furniture in the whole house, otherwise there is no way to live in.
Brother Phil and his girlfriend found some friends to clean up together, but the garbage can accommodate so much waste discarded at one time, so he had to rent three such a large garbage truck tail bucket for 250 pounds each!
On the first day, the garbage was piled up on all three bodies, transported and dumped, and filled two of them the next day, and it took nearly 54 hours to finally clean up the whole house.
Later, when asked about this matter by the media, Phil brother shook his head helplessly during the answer:
"Just throwing away what was broken in the house cost me £1,200, and then I had to spend tens of thousands of pounds to renovate!"
Neighbors said the tenant was a hoarder who received couriers every day but never threw away garbage, and some said they were animal lovers, so they rescued the snakes and other animals and kept them at home. ”
What's even more disgusting is that the tenant went so far as to rake in an interview with the media that it was all the fault of the landlord, Phil, and blamed the problem on his failure to repair the broken boiler, shower and central air conditioning heating in the house!
The face is lost and still thinking about throwing the pot, the average person really can't do this thing ah...
In fact, this phenomenon of "rogue tenants" is not uncommon in the UK, and there has been another similar incident in Somerset recently.
Just last month, decorator Simon Moore received an order from a local two-bedroom homeowner, only to realize after a site survey that it was the worst job of his entire career!
It turned out that the previous tenant who had lived here had refused to pay the rent for several months, but was evicted by the landlord but was dissatisfied, and out of revenge, he made all kinds of graffiti on the walls of the house.
That guy painted it, even the artist is not so big...
A good white wall in the room, only the interstitial rows have not been "defiled"...
Even the ceiling was not spared, it was painted to the fullest!
Of course, the kitchen is not much better, anyway, the location that can be painted is a few strokes!
Looking at the window is not pleasing to the eye, it is all black, and even the light does not want to penetrate...
Finally, it is estimated that I was a little tired when I painted the corridor, plus the walls here are too wide, so I simply didn't bother to draw the pattern, directly meaning to get a few strokes, and then slipped away!
Simon, who had already agreed to take over this task, was helpless to see this, so he had to find another worker to re-paint the walls with himself.
It ended up costing the landlord £2,000 to apply four layers of thick solvent-based paint, and it took a total of five days to restore the walls of the house to clean white.
For this kind of tenant who throws the mess to the landlord to clean up, netizens are mercilessly scolded:
"This kind of person doesn't deserve to live in a decent place!"
"It's the dregs of society!"
"Before these tenants become a nuisance for the next landlord, they need to be publicly named and criticized!"
"We need a dedicated national database to organize the profiles of these rogue tenants as part of the screening process for other landlords before renting to them, so they can't ruin other people's lives!"
"I've said this long ago that all tenants who vandalize their homes should be criminally charged and have to pay for repairs in full!"
When I met such a tenant, it was really unlucky...