If you have read my blog before you will know that we recently fixed up our house in St. George. Well, the new renters (who moved in in April, decided they couldn't afford to live there and wanted to sell their contract. We put anv ad on ksl classifieds on a Tuesday and by Friday afternoon we had the deposit of our new tenants. This gave the current renters one week to move out. They agreed to it so that they wouldn't have another months rent to pay. We had heard from the new tenants that not everything was in perfect condition. So we decided to drive down to make sure and meet the new tenants. The privious ones only lived there for 3 months, how bad could it be? So we get there and the old tenant is showing us around the house and one of the bedrooms has a broken door jam. As in, their kid locked it from the inside so instead of calling a lock smith or trying to figure out how to unlock or unhinge the door, they just broke it in. It was cracked and in pieces for about a foot and a half along the side. They had "tried" to piece it back together with the few bigger pieces by screwing them in. (Because that doesn't look tacky at all!) And then they wanted to fill the rest of the holes with putty. Are ya kiddin me?! I guess if the house we a run down piece of crap it would be ok but this is a nice house that we just fixed up to top condition. So Jake goes to Lowe's hoping he can just replace the one one piece. Nope. They broke it so bad we have to replace the entire door jam. So Jake finds out how much it will cost and how much to instal it and everything and we head back to the house. That's when we notice the scratch in the living room wall that runs the entire length of the room. A big black line and a couple big gashes. What have these people been doing??! And the girls all "oh, I can just paint over that." Uh, no! Jake tells he the holes have to be filled first and then sanded and then painted. Ridiculous! Next she tells us that the front door knob was all jamed in and they had to "fix" that so the door would stay closed. There was not even 24 hours between the time we left and they moved in. Meaning either the old tenants or someone else tried to break in in that short window of time or they did something to that door too. We agree not to charge them for that and Jake fixes it the right way in less than 5 min.
Ok, now a little background info. They lived there 3 months and we never got a full months rent. They did pay the $500 deposit. So they owed us $470. And although it says in our contract you can't use your deposit for last month or back rent we decide to let them do it. We never once charged them a late fee. And we let them pay later in the month when they got their check. We were nothing but nice. So they now only have $30 of their deposit. We decide that needs to go towards all the minor repairs we have to do and that makes us even. And then there is the $200 for the door jam, which they broke. I understand some people aren't good with math but it seems pretty clear to me. She just kept saying "that comes out of our deposit right?" Honey, you ain't go no deposit! After awhile she gets it and we decide to have her sign a contract saying they'll pay the $200 by the end of the month. She calls her husband to okay it with him and I can hear him yelling on the other end. He obviously doesn't get it either. You can't just not pay rent and then expect everything you owe to disappear because you're moving out. Besides that They broke the door! Holy cow some people amaze me at how ridiculous they are. Anyway, she signs the contract and says she is going to leave...only she doesn't. She hangs out until the new tenants get there. And in listening to them talk I find out one of her kids peeed all over the wall so she had to clean that up. Not to mention he did it multiple times. And we found out that when the new tenants went to look at the house the other tenants just locked all 3 of their kids in a room and watched tv. Real responsible. No wonder he peed on the wall. The kid was left unattended.
So in the end she signed the contract and we're waiting for our $200 and the other renters paid us everything the owe on time. Let's just hope they keep that up. We are so glad to be rid of the other renters. If they could do that much damage in 3 months I don't want to know what it would have looked like over a year!
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