Here are 15 of the most surprising ones:
1.
“Tenant got evicted for building turtle habitat without permission.
They started a turtle breeding business and flooded the basement with maybe six inches of water the entire basement.
“I had to evict someone for not using the shower curtain.
They took a long shower and flooded their bathroom, which ran down and flooded the apartment below them.
We lost the downstairs tenant as well.
Then, when they were evicted, they asked for their damage deposit back.”
“My sister used to have some duplexes she rented out.
My sister was being nice because the tenant was in a hard spot.
The eviction process started immediately.”
“My ex-tenant was growing weed in the house and other tenants were complaining.
I called and told him to get rid of it.
I don’t care about it being illegal, but I take the complaints from the other tenants seriously.
He said, ‘Call them.’
He was arrested and evicted.”
“My tenant fell asleep making bacon and lit the entire house on fire.”
“Our tenant had a dog, and we thought it was hers.
She treated it like garbage and barely took care of it.
One day, she left this little puppy in the snow, and my mom was furious.
“Evicted someone because he was running the shower non-stop to humidify his apartment.
He believed that it was his right since hot water was included in his rent.
His apartment was so humid that he had both mold and mushrooms growing in every corner.
The buildings water bill had increased by $500 in the three months he lived there.”
Every single window in the house ended up rotted with black mold.
They asked for their deposit back. "
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