Monday, June 23, 2008

Being a Landlord kinda Stinks!

We have a twinhome that we rent out in Santaquin, and recently our tenant moved out. We went in to clean and about died! It was so filthy disgustingly dirty, and it has taken us the past two weeks of cleaning, repainting, recarpeting, weeding, scrubbing boogers, fly guts, and dirt off walls, pressure washing, etc.... to get the home looking good again. That is one of the reasons I have posted in awhile. My internet was down the past week as well. Anyway, our new tenants just moved into a "like new" twin home, and we are praying they will take care of it! After working at the court house and seeing eviction cases, I vowed I would never do the landlord thing, and here we are doing it! Hopefully it will pay off when we sell the place!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

After what our tenants did to our Tooele house several years ago we've sworn we'll never rent out again either. We've considered it for this one because we need something bigger and the selling market here sucks, but we keep thinking of the ripped up (once brand new) carpet, the dark blue and neon pink bedroom paint (??) and engine parts that were apparently washed in the dishwasher and we quickly go back to swearing we'll never rent out again!

Hollie said...

heather, do you have a blog? I was excited to get a comment from you! How is everything?

Katie said...

Yep know the feeling our cute little orem home was trashed by our first renters. I now do periodic inspections!