> ‘In the bathroom she’s obviously done what she’s done and left all the stuff outside of the toilet so I’m presuming it’s blocked and doesn’t work.
What a fun sentence.
I was feeling bad about not doing enough cleaning around my flat lately, but you know, this has made me feel better. My place is pretty clean in comparison.
She rented the place for 18 years and never had a single issue that caused the landlord to visit? 18 years of zero maintenance or inspection?
>I know she hasn’t got a lot of money but it needs pointing out that you can’t leave landlords in this situation.’
Perhaps this landlord is one of the good ones but the irony of this statement on the whole tickled me.
You do have to wonder what life experiences would lead to someone letting their home get to this state and presumably be OK *living amongst it all*
Are we talking mental health here?
There seems to be an element of series OCD or some sort of undiagnosed condition that is manifesting through the anti-social behaviour.
Looking at the photos suggests that is at least maybe 3 years worth of rubbish that built up in the house. I would also question whether or not the son is actually safe.
The house is serious grounds for the Sectioning of the woman under the Mental Health Act.
Tenant of 18 years and he only just noticed. He is a ‘as long as the rent keeps coming in’ landlord.
No checks done on the condition of the property, fire alarms, boiler cert. If he had he would have noticed the state of the premises.
I will just get my tiny violin, the landlord should have done his job better.
Very difficult to have any sympathy for the landlord. Where was he during this 18 year period which would surely have required inspections, safety improvements etc?
I feel sorry for the tenant though, clearly something is very wrong mentally/physically and no one checked up on them
Risk of doing business.
Considering in 18 years they apparently never bothered to do any checks, inspections or maintenence then perhaps they should consider getting a real job that actually contributes to society if they don’t want to risk getting into a situation like this.
It’s heartening to see that most of the comments here call the landlord out on his failings to do his job and keep an eye on his properties, £15k is nothing compared to what she’s likely to have paid rent over the years and that’s excluding rent increases and assuming it was a low but decent rent amount.
Also the empathy displayed towards the woman who is clearly suffering from mental health issues is really comforting.
This sub is so hilarious sometimes. A tenant ruins a house and people are still find ways to blame the landlord.
Considering that no work has been done on the house in at least 30 years 15k to get it back to market standard doesn’t seem too bad
Even without all the rubbish that house needs modernising anyway.
You can bet if it was tidy, they would have just tried to let it out again without any improvements, this has just forced his hand.
This is when he realises that not doing inspections was not in fact “easier”
Imagine the mental state you would have to be in to accept living in these conditions. It’s really sad. 🙁
Poor Danny! Kirsty & Phil didn’t warn him of this did they!
Nor it seems Gas safety certificates, fire safety certificates or seemingly anything else he has a duty uphold.
I hope the house blows up due to his 20+ yr old boiler malfunctioning
Disappointing that his main concern appears to be making sure she’s punished not the obvious fact that somebody who could end up in this situation urgently needs treatment for mental health issues.
“It’s going to cost us about £15,000 to get right. It’s got to come out of the business – you don’t get that in rent pay so if everyone did that I wouldn’t have a business”
You heard him, everyone. Out of business.
Hes probably had around a hundred grand in rent payments which would more than cover this.
Easily preventable by regular checks.
So ignored a property for 18 years, and then kicked the tenant out so he could sell it, tried to sell it without going to look at it (…wonder what fucking line he tried on the prospective buyer?) and now is amazed that the place is a shithole after neglecting it for years and bitching about how much its going to cost to fix.
That’s before even getting into the obvious need for mental health help for the ex-tenant.
Poor Landnonce. Let me get out my tiny violin for thee.
You can always rely on the newspapers to report edge cases when there’s landlordism to defend.
In rushing to point out the complete negligence of the landlord people seem to be giving the impression that the state of that house is pretty much what you would expect.
Do people really have no self-respect? The state of that house suggests a severe mental illness.
> ‘I just don’t know how humans can live like that. It must have been going on for years for it to get like that.
So what you’re saying is, you haven’t checked on the property, provided any maintenance, had legally required gas checks carried out etc. for years?
Good. The more this happens the less enticing it is for hoarders to scalp land and profit of scarcity.
Roads are made, streets are made, services are improved, electric light turns night into day, water is brought from reservoirs a hundred miles off in the mountains — all the while the landlord sits still. Every one of those improvements is affected by the labor and cost of other people and the taxpayers. To not one of these improvements does the land monopolist contribute, and yet, by every one of them the value of his land is enhanced. He renders no service to the community, he contributes nothing to the general welfare, he contributes nothing to the process from which his own enrichment is derived…The unearned increment on the land is reaped by the land monopolist in exact proportion, not to the service, but to the disservice done.
— Winston Churchill, 1909
It’s a pretty wild level of filth, but that’s the risk of doing business when you’re a landlord. Unlucky son.
As it’s nearly Xmas, cracker joke anyone?
Q: How do you get to Oldham?
About 10 years back me and my family moved into a rental home that had a tiny basement unit in the same house, when we moved in it was a very pleasant Iraqi guy who always kept this tiny little space perfect and would bring us food every now and again.
Once he moved out this odd guy moved in and after only a month or so our entire house started smelling like shit and garbage, when we realized the smell was coming through the central air we asked the landlord to inspect the downstairs unit. About 2 months of living there and the guy had filled the tiny downstairs unit with his own trash and waste, and was actively taking bags of trash out of our neighbours bins and rifling through it. He was evicted immediately and the landlord had to spend +$5,000 on professional decontaminators. I can not imagine what the damage or the smell would have been like after 18 whole years of that.
In that house the smell never fully went away, we moved the following year and the house was demolished a year or two later. Hoarding like this is a horrible mental illness and is incredibly destructive, can’t imagine what that mind state must be like.
A spokesperson for Oldham Council said: ‘It’s important that landlords carry out checks on their tenants prior to letting a property and that they carry out regular checks to ensure tenants are complying with their tenancy agreement and that the house is in a good state of repair.’
All well and good but for the previous 18 months, there’s been very much a view from letting agents, tenants and wider stakeholders, that inspections aren’t allowed.
Whilst photos and video could be used, think the language from the Council is a little rich.
But, honestly, how the hell could someone live like this and, more so, why didn’t anyone else report this?
This is surprisingly common among mentally ill people sadly. There are people who have serious issues comprehending their immediate surroundings and with throwing anything away (hoarding). It’s something people need help with, but it usually gets like that because things are so bad they’re just isolating with no friends coming over and helping them.
In this specific case, while I sympathize with the landlord suddenly having to deal with this unprepared, they clearly failed to inspect the property at any point. Unless it’s all been in the last couple of years of Covid, which might make sense.
Landlord didn’t do his job, cry me a river. Being a landlord is so low risk as it is, and it shouldn’t be, glad to see that there’s at least some risk to being a landlord.
Should be illegal, abolish private landlords.
Gas man here, do a few annual checks. Some but very few I do for landlords I know as friends, they use me to give the place a quick eye over for them, and count this as their yearly check. More responsibility than I want but it’s doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme. 99/100 times the places are being treated impeccably, like you would your own home. Better in some rare cases.
But sometimes there are the odd one who you do think “ what the f**k, how can you live like this!” A couple of extreme ones
One I went too, woman on her own, was leaving as I arrived. Hall was clear rest of the flat looked like it had been burgled, path through lounge to kitchen between stuff that looked like it had been dropped as she’d come in. Had a weeks notice !
Another one, chap on his own. Small house, boiler in a cupboard in the bedroom. Mostly fairly tidy, bit grimey. But had about 1k porn dvds stacked floor to ceiling around the bedroom. Trust me you don’t want to touch any door handles or anything after seeing that shit.
Don’t do that one anymore thank goodness!
There’s others that can’t keep a cooker clean that’s not that uncommon unfortunately.
Still cleaner than some of the students I lived with.
Person neglects investment and it bites them in the butt more at 7
Looks like a tragic failing in mental health provision to me.
im torn between my hatred of landlords and hatred of scumbags that destroy other people property. Also £15k to clean this? i call BS, he just needs a few days, 100 bin bags, about 10 trips in a car to the dump and a change in profession.
Impressive effort by some of the posters here to blame this on the landlord.
Lots of you saying “he should have done an annual inspection” – maybe the landlord requests access and the tenant declines. And while he should have been at least requesting that, there’s no requirement to do so, and not being checked up on does not justify trashing the house.
This is why rents and deposits have to be so high, because if you get a bad tenant, you have to pay for the repairs yourself, and that has to be covered by the rent over time.
Looks absolutely rank but love it when landlords get upset about their asset having a cost implication.
Shock horror that something might not deliver 100% profit for the rest of time and dent their income.
Cry me a river as JT would say
I wonder what her life was actually like living there. I sometimes struggle keeping my place clean and tidy, but this is a whole different level that I find it difficult to comprehend. I’m imagining someone turning up for work like anyone else but going home to that. Or if she was on benefits, just living constantly surrounded by that?
To be fair, that kitchen was shit to begin with. Those metal cabinets…
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> ‘In the bathroom she’s obviously done what she’s done and left all the stuff outside of the toilet so I’m presuming it’s blocked and doesn’t work.
What a fun sentence.
I was feeling bad about not doing enough cleaning around my flat lately, but you know, this has made me feel better. My place is pretty clean in comparison.
She rented the place for 18 years and never had a single issue that caused the landlord to visit? 18 years of zero maintenance or inspection?
>I know she hasn’t got a lot of money but it needs pointing out that you can’t leave landlords in this situation.’
Perhaps this landlord is one of the good ones but the irony of this statement on the whole tickled me.
You do have to wonder what life experiences would lead to someone letting their home get to this state and presumably be OK *living amongst it all*
Are we talking mental health here?
There seems to be an element of series OCD or some sort of undiagnosed condition that is manifesting through the anti-social behaviour.
Looking at the photos suggests that is at least maybe 3 years worth of rubbish that built up in the house. I would also question whether or not the son is actually safe.
The house is serious grounds for the Sectioning of the woman under the Mental Health Act.
Tenant of 18 years and he only just noticed. He is a ‘as long as the rent keeps coming in’ landlord.
No checks done on the condition of the property, fire alarms, boiler cert. If he had he would have noticed the state of the premises.
I will just get my tiny violin, the landlord should have done his job better.
Very difficult to have any sympathy for the landlord. Where was he during this 18 year period which would surely have required inspections, safety improvements etc?
I feel sorry for the tenant though, clearly something is very wrong mentally/physically and no one checked up on them
Risk of doing business.
Considering in 18 years they apparently never bothered to do any checks, inspections or maintenence then perhaps they should consider getting a real job that actually contributes to society if they don’t want to risk getting into a situation like this.
It’s heartening to see that most of the comments here call the landlord out on his failings to do his job and keep an eye on his properties, £15k is nothing compared to what she’s likely to have paid rent over the years and that’s excluding rent increases and assuming it was a low but decent rent amount.
Also the empathy displayed towards the woman who is clearly suffering from mental health issues is really comforting.
This sub is so hilarious sometimes. A tenant ruins a house and people are still find ways to blame the landlord.
Considering that no work has been done on the house in at least 30 years 15k to get it back to market standard doesn’t seem too bad
Even without all the rubbish that house needs modernising anyway.
You can bet if it was tidy, they would have just tried to let it out again without any improvements, this has just forced his hand.
This is when he realises that not doing inspections was not in fact “easier”
Imagine the mental state you would have to be in to accept living in these conditions. It’s really sad. 🙁
Poor Danny! Kirsty & Phil didn’t warn him of this did they!
Nor it seems Gas safety certificates, fire safety certificates or seemingly anything else he has a duty uphold.
I hope the house blows up due to his 20+ yr old boiler malfunctioning
Disappointing that his main concern appears to be making sure she’s punished not the obvious fact that somebody who could end up in this situation urgently needs treatment for mental health issues.
“It’s going to cost us about £15,000 to get right. It’s got to come out of the business – you don’t get that in rent pay so if everyone did that I wouldn’t have a business”
You heard him, everyone. Out of business.
Hes probably had around a hundred grand in rent payments which would more than cover this.
Easily preventable by regular checks.
So ignored a property for 18 years, and then kicked the tenant out so he could sell it, tried to sell it without going to look at it (…wonder what fucking line he tried on the prospective buyer?) and now is amazed that the place is a shithole after neglecting it for years and bitching about how much its going to cost to fix.
That’s before even getting into the obvious need for mental health help for the ex-tenant.
Poor Landnonce. Let me get out my tiny violin for thee.
You can always rely on the newspapers to report edge cases when there’s landlordism to defend.
In rushing to point out the complete negligence of the landlord people seem to be giving the impression that the state of that house is pretty much what you would expect.
Do people really have no self-respect? The state of that house suggests a severe mental illness.
> ‘I just don’t know how humans can live like that. It must have been going on for years for it to get like that.
So what you’re saying is, you haven’t checked on the property, provided any maintenance, had legally required gas checks carried out etc. for years?
Good. The more this happens the less enticing it is for hoarders to scalp land and profit of scarcity.
Roads are made, streets are made, services are improved, electric light turns night into day, water is brought from reservoirs a hundred miles off in the mountains — all the while the landlord sits still. Every one of those improvements is affected by the labor and cost of other people and the taxpayers. To not one of these improvements does the land monopolist contribute, and yet, by every one of them the value of his land is enhanced. He renders no service to the community, he contributes nothing to the general welfare, he contributes nothing to the process from which his own enrichment is derived…The unearned increment on the land is reaped by the land monopolist in exact proportion, not to the service, but to the disservice done.
— Winston Churchill, 1909
It’s a pretty wild level of filth, but that’s the risk of doing business when you’re a landlord. Unlucky son.
As it’s nearly Xmas, cracker joke anyone?
Q: How do you get to Oldham?
About 10 years back me and my family moved into a rental home that had a tiny basement unit in the same house, when we moved in it was a very pleasant Iraqi guy who always kept this tiny little space perfect and would bring us food every now and again.
Once he moved out this odd guy moved in and after only a month or so our entire house started smelling like shit and garbage, when we realized the smell was coming through the central air we asked the landlord to inspect the downstairs unit. About 2 months of living there and the guy had filled the tiny downstairs unit with his own trash and waste, and was actively taking bags of trash out of our neighbours bins and rifling through it. He was evicted immediately and the landlord had to spend +$5,000 on professional decontaminators. I can not imagine what the damage or the smell would have been like after 18 whole years of that.
In that house the smell never fully went away, we moved the following year and the house was demolished a year or two later. Hoarding like this is a horrible mental illness and is incredibly destructive, can’t imagine what that mind state must be like.
A spokesperson for Oldham Council said: ‘It’s important that landlords carry out checks on their tenants prior to letting a property and that they carry out regular checks to ensure tenants are complying with their tenancy agreement and that the house is in a good state of repair.’
All well and good but for the previous 18 months, there’s been very much a view from letting agents, tenants and wider stakeholders, that inspections aren’t allowed.
Whilst photos and video could be used, think the language from the Council is a little rich.
But, honestly, how the hell could someone live like this and, more so, why didn’t anyone else report this?
This is surprisingly common among mentally ill people sadly. There are people who have serious issues comprehending their immediate surroundings and with throwing anything away (hoarding). It’s something people need help with, but it usually gets like that because things are so bad they’re just isolating with no friends coming over and helping them.
In this specific case, while I sympathize with the landlord suddenly having to deal with this unprepared, they clearly failed to inspect the property at any point. Unless it’s all been in the last couple of years of Covid, which might make sense.
Landlord didn’t do his job, cry me a river. Being a landlord is so low risk as it is, and it shouldn’t be, glad to see that there’s at least some risk to being a landlord.
Should be illegal, abolish private landlords.
Gas man here, do a few annual checks. Some but very few I do for landlords I know as friends, they use me to give the place a quick eye over for them, and count this as their yearly check. More responsibility than I want but it’s doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme. 99/100 times the places are being treated impeccably, like you would your own home. Better in some rare cases.
But sometimes there are the odd one who you do think “ what the f**k, how can you live like this!” A couple of extreme ones
One I went too, woman on her own, was leaving as I arrived. Hall was clear rest of the flat looked like it had been burgled, path through lounge to kitchen between stuff that looked like it had been dropped as she’d come in. Had a weeks notice !
Another one, chap on his own. Small house, boiler in a cupboard in the bedroom. Mostly fairly tidy, bit grimey. But had about 1k porn dvds stacked floor to ceiling around the bedroom. Trust me you don’t want to touch any door handles or anything after seeing that shit.
Don’t do that one anymore thank goodness!
There’s others that can’t keep a cooker clean that’s not that uncommon unfortunately.
Still cleaner than some of the students I lived with.
Person neglects investment and it bites them in the butt more at 7
Looks like a tragic failing in mental health provision to me.
im torn between my hatred of landlords and hatred of scumbags that destroy other people property. Also £15k to clean this? i call BS, he just needs a few days, 100 bin bags, about 10 trips in a car to the dump and a change in profession.
Impressive effort by some of the posters here to blame this on the landlord.
Lots of you saying “he should have done an annual inspection” – maybe the landlord requests access and the tenant declines. And while he should have been at least requesting that, there’s no requirement to do so, and not being checked up on does not justify trashing the house.
This is why rents and deposits have to be so high, because if you get a bad tenant, you have to pay for the repairs yourself, and that has to be covered by the rent over time.
Looks absolutely rank but love it when landlords get upset about their asset having a cost implication.
Shock horror that something might not deliver 100% profit for the rest of time and dent their income.
Cry me a river as JT would say
I wonder what her life was actually like living there. I sometimes struggle keeping my place clean and tidy, but this is a whole different level that I find it difficult to comprehend. I’m imagining someone turning up for work like anyone else but going home to that. Or if she was on benefits, just living constantly surrounded by that?
To be fair, that kitchen was shit to begin with. Those metal cabinets…