Home Owner Films Horrible Changes Tenants Made While Renting His House, Goes Viral With Over 6.1M Views On TikTok
History knows many uncompromising rivalries in various areas of human activity, so popular that they even entered folklore. Red Rose vs. White Rose, Catholics vs. Protestants, Magic vs. Bird, kids vs. parents, pedestrians vs. drivers, tenants vs. landlords…
The internet is full of stories about terrible landlords, and probably a lot of them have a rational basis, because guys who rent houses and apartments to other people often behave in absolutely disgusting ways. But what about the tenants? In fact, there are no fewer stories about nightmare tenants, and here is one of them.
Jeff Kowalczuk, a.k.a. TikToker its_principle, recently made a video in which he told how his tenants literally abused the house he had been renting out to them. The video went viral almost instantly, with over 6.1M views and almost 250K likes, and over 15K people shared it just to espouse what ‘nightmare tenants’ can actually do.
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The author of the video came to inspect his house after his tenants moved out as their lease expired
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So, Jeff rented out the house, and after the lease expired and the tenants moved out, he went to inspect the condition of the dwelling. What he saw literally shocked the man. No, of course, it’s not just the mountains of garbage around the house and inside it. After all, nobody’s perfect, and Jeff’s former tenants are no exception. The landlord was rather struck by the changes that people had made in his house.
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Image credits: its_principle
It turned out that the tenants made some incredibly tasteless yet DIY-enthusiastic ‘renovations’
If on the move-in day, its interior was quite ordinary and cozy – there are actually thousands and thousands of such homes around the world – then move-out day exposed the incredible DIY enthusiasm of Jeff’s former tenants, coolly mixed with an almost complete lack of any artistic taste.
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Image credits: its_principle
The walls in the rooms were repainted in bright and completely disgusting colors (and, apparently, the painter was doing their job for almost the first time in their entire life), fragments of wallpaper imitating brickwork were also randomly scattered over the walls, and the doors were ineptly (but with a clear desire) stylized as steampunk metal with rivets. And on top of all this, like a cherry on the cake, mountains of garbage and dirty dishes lay in complete disarray…
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Image credits: its_principle
A real estate agent says she has never seen such ‘renovations’ in her entire life
“Of course, it happens that tenants turn out to be extremely unscrupulous, it happens that they make quite radical ‘renovations’ in a rented house, but I must admit that this is the first time I’ve seen such a combination,” says Yulia Shurinova, a real estate agent from Odessa, with whom Bored Panda got in touch for comments on this video. “It would be interesting, of course, to look at the lease agreement – are there such significant changes and the possibility of sanctions for them?”
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Image credits: its_principle
“Usually tenants are more modest and the renovations they make don’t look like the landlord will now have to do a major overhaul in order to move in the next tenants. Perhaps the author of the video should contact his former tenants and try to settle everything at their expense. In any case, he has all the chance of success,” states Yulia.
Image credits: its_principle
Image credits: its_principle
Image credits: its_principle
Image credits: its_principle
Image credits: its_principle
Most of the people in the comments also claim that it somehow just kept getting worse
Many commenters fully agree with the expert, only being completely surprised at the lack of any taste among the tenants. “Why did they have such bad taste OMG,” writes one of the people in the comments. “It somehow just kept getting worse,” notes the second one. “What in the DIY hell?” the third of the commenters asks quite a logical question.
However, the changes made by the residents led many commenters to obvious references in world popular culture. For example, the doors of the freezer reminded people of The Krusty Krab, and people in the comments called the overall impression of what they saw “medieval steampunk.” In any case, as one of the people in the comments summarizes, “personally I wouldn’t have rented to the Addams Family myself.”
@its_principle #landlord #tenantsfromhell #realestateinvesting ♬ Oh No – Kreepa
And now, in order to balance the impressions a little, let’s just remember one more tale – already more classic, about evil landlords. And besides, we, as always, would love to know what you think about this particular situation, so please feel free to write your own comments under this post.
The Addam's had CLASS, they wouldn't have done something like this
You got that right.
That's not even steampunk; that's just industrial fetish
Exactly. Tasteless industrial fetish at that. I feel like people see pipes and rivets, and automatically say 'steampunk'... but for those who don't know, steampunk has a distinctly victorian style to it. The main colours are brass, browns, reds, purples and oranges. The whole style is basically; what if victorians used steam to power almost everything, and there's a bit of sci-fi technology as well with airships and the like.
Absolutely, I completely agree! I love steampunk. This though also appears that someone added touches of a "Little Rascals" production of a Renaissance festival, poorly placed throughout the house as well as the rest of the mish mash. It's a shame that they didn't do a better job, then they could have used the house as a themed airbnb to rent. It is insane that someone would spend all the money and time to do something like that to a home that doesn't belong to them, even when doing a poor job on it. As a aside, a very nice 3 bdrm brick home diagonally across the street from me is one of the few rented homes in our subdivision. The owner has had to gut it and redo the interior twice in the past two years due to tenants trashing his house, but he still doesn't change anything in the way he takes care of the property when it's occupied. I never see him again until it's trashed and he's back to fix it. I think if him or his repair man would change the air filters monthly,Continue below
It would surely stop some of the excessive damage that keeps incurring. I can't understand doing nothing to prevent it. The last time it was 4+ months of work to replace everything they destroyed in the house. It probably took a little longer due to the pandemic but they still filled up a industrial construction dumpster with garbage and things those people left in the house then had it dumped to use it for the renovation purposes. It just seems like he makes his job harder. They are senior citizens, but I honestly don't know if that has anything to do with it or not. They recently acquired the foreclosure next door and had to gut it and completely renovate it. It took them a few months to complete it and they recently rented it out. I hope they have better luck with the houses and the neighbors here are really good overall, quiet, clean yards, and we keep to ourselves, so it's a decent place to live.
I like to think of it as the Victorian era that envisioned the future out of the basic styles and construct that they had at the time. I’ve seen very high class…and high dollar steampunk envisioned computers and were very stylish. No idea what the hell these people were trying to do.
I'd make sure it's in the lease agreement that no alterations done to the house without owner's prior written approval. Hope he kept the damage deposit to pay for fixing this awful mess.
There's no way that deposit is going to cover restoring to the previous beautiful state
Time to take Tenant to Court and Sue for Damages
Getting the money after the judgement is an entirely different story.
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This is why some landlords become micro managers inspecting your home on scheduled inspections and making impromptu visits with excuses to come inside so they can get a peek around the inside of their home. Tenants need to remember the home their living in is not theirs to make changes too, particularly such tasteless drastic changes as this poor owner discovered. In the future it is not a bad idea to make scheduled inspections of the property. I'd have it in the lease, No modifications with obtaining your permission 1st and quarterly inspections by you or an assigned representative. To restore the property to it's former state will cost you a few thousand dollars which you will likely need to recoup through doubling the deposit and increasing tenant rent as well as adding clauses to your lease and spending your valuable time conducting inspections. Really feeling badly for you and future tenants.
The Addam's had CLASS, they wouldn't have done something like this
You got that right.
That's not even steampunk; that's just industrial fetish
Exactly. Tasteless industrial fetish at that. I feel like people see pipes and rivets, and automatically say 'steampunk'... but for those who don't know, steampunk has a distinctly victorian style to it. The main colours are brass, browns, reds, purples and oranges. The whole style is basically; what if victorians used steam to power almost everything, and there's a bit of sci-fi technology as well with airships and the like.
Absolutely, I completely agree! I love steampunk. This though also appears that someone added touches of a "Little Rascals" production of a Renaissance festival, poorly placed throughout the house as well as the rest of the mish mash. It's a shame that they didn't do a better job, then they could have used the house as a themed airbnb to rent. It is insane that someone would spend all the money and time to do something like that to a home that doesn't belong to them, even when doing a poor job on it. As a aside, a very nice 3 bdrm brick home diagonally across the street from me is one of the few rented homes in our subdivision. The owner has had to gut it and redo the interior twice in the past two years due to tenants trashing his house, but he still doesn't change anything in the way he takes care of the property when it's occupied. I never see him again until it's trashed and he's back to fix it. I think if him or his repair man would change the air filters monthly,Continue below
It would surely stop some of the excessive damage that keeps incurring. I can't understand doing nothing to prevent it. The last time it was 4+ months of work to replace everything they destroyed in the house. It probably took a little longer due to the pandemic but they still filled up a industrial construction dumpster with garbage and things those people left in the house then had it dumped to use it for the renovation purposes. It just seems like he makes his job harder. They are senior citizens, but I honestly don't know if that has anything to do with it or not. They recently acquired the foreclosure next door and had to gut it and completely renovate it. It took them a few months to complete it and they recently rented it out. I hope they have better luck with the houses and the neighbors here are really good overall, quiet, clean yards, and we keep to ourselves, so it's a decent place to live.
I like to think of it as the Victorian era that envisioned the future out of the basic styles and construct that they had at the time. I’ve seen very high class…and high dollar steampunk envisioned computers and were very stylish. No idea what the hell these people were trying to do.
I'd make sure it's in the lease agreement that no alterations done to the house without owner's prior written approval. Hope he kept the damage deposit to pay for fixing this awful mess.
There's no way that deposit is going to cover restoring to the previous beautiful state
Time to take Tenant to Court and Sue for Damages
Getting the money after the judgement is an entirely different story.
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This is why some landlords become micro managers inspecting your home on scheduled inspections and making impromptu visits with excuses to come inside so they can get a peek around the inside of their home. Tenants need to remember the home their living in is not theirs to make changes too, particularly such tasteless drastic changes as this poor owner discovered. In the future it is not a bad idea to make scheduled inspections of the property. I'd have it in the lease, No modifications with obtaining your permission 1st and quarterly inspections by you or an assigned representative. To restore the property to it's former state will cost you a few thousand dollars which you will likely need to recoup through doubling the deposit and increasing tenant rent as well as adding clauses to your lease and spending your valuable time conducting inspections. Really feeling badly for you and future tenants.