Well frat party boy's are gone. No eviction necessary. I think they were tired of living with each other anyway. There was one stellar fella who celebrated way too much, he had "Cinco de Marty" party's, and celebrated "Marty Graw" .
The house itself was in good shape, two of the bedrooms just needed cleaning and touch up paint, MartyPartyPant's room needed to have a lot of patching done, where he had installed some car speakers into the walls, and we had to repaint because he turned the room into a dark cave. (that's right ladies) Some scratched floors, a cracked mirror and oddly, the garbage disposal had been removed.
Oddly, all of the closet doors had been removed and put in the attic, my imagination hasn't been able to come up with a reason for that.
Here are some afters.
I know, ignore the dates on the camera.
The biggest problem was the yard. The front needed weeding and mowing, the gravel driveway was being overtaken by weeds, but the backyard (which is not visible from the road) was completely overgrown, and there was garbage everywhere. The attached garage had a lot of stuff as well.
We decided to have 1-800-got junk haul everything away. When they came we added some garbage from the house and were working on the yard as they loaded up, the junk fellas were excited about an engine hoist in the garage and we told them they could have it.
After loading a pile of junk from behind the house - where incidentally we found the garbage disposal - we came across a dead animal of some sort, we didn't look to close, we let junk fellas take care of it since they were still in a good mood about the engine hoist. I am wishing the loosers would have left the keg, FULL of course.
We have some new renters coming in the first of October, a couple, we are hoping that they aren't wackadoo's, but only time will tell.




At least they're gone, the house is still standing and you now have new tenants coming. Good luck!
Posted by: Nicole | September 12, 2008 at 06:42 AM
They're gone now. At least you got it looking great again and that you're getting new tenants.
Posted by: tiennie | September 12, 2008 at 03:33 PM
What, no before pics so we can see Marty's handiwork?
Posted by: Gene | September 12, 2008 at 06:59 PM
I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don't know what to say except that I have enjoyed. Really a nice post here!
Posted by: stove pipe | January 22, 2010 at 11:15 AM
I love your kitchen.. Its sooo clean.
Posted by: Heating and Air Augusta | July 27, 2010 at 09:19 PM
Yeah! Better to have before and after pics... Anyway, the house is clean, I couldn't imagine what was the pic before it got cleaned. what kind of animal you guys found?
Posted by: AC installation largo | July 30, 2010 at 07:12 PM
Nothing like nightmare tenants to turn you off from landlording. As least they got out without forcing an eviction.
Posted by: Coeur d’ Alene Remodeling | January 08, 2011 at 06:22 PM
The remodeling went well, I think. I like what you did to your bathroom, installing that wonderfully big mirror and some nice sinks. I'm just curious, what kind of dead animal did you find? I once found a skeleton of a deceased rodent inside my closet.
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Posted by: zma | November 05, 2011 at 09:46 PM