Actually Tez, whilst they may at different times there were very very likely malicious and connected. That is cope out by the Insurer.
You can only inspect every 3 months at the most and bad tenants can easily avoid providing entry.
I have only had one bad tentant who I evicted. After 9 months of letters and 3 hearing at tribunal (each time he promised to be good and pay up) he was finally evicted.
During this time he never agreed to inspections, always elsewhere and/or refused entry. When PM said he was coming anyhow using the keys, he put a Rottweiler
inside the house. He has not allowed to have a dog (they claim we a looking after it for someone). Dog proceeded to eat the Timber blinds.
All in all a $5k claim for damages and we didn’t get carpet or wall cleaning or rubbish removal or a huge excess of $1000
When we got in we found the following:
- tiles removed from roof ? is seems he was storing “items” in the roof needing light
- water damage in the ceiling from said tiles, or water of said “items”
- Broken stove
- 90% of flyscreens broken and torn
- 90% of blinds damaged or eaten
- 1 window broken and repaired but waste glass simply dumped in garden with broken glass inside and outside the house
- beer bottles & garbage throughout the rear garden
- stains everywhere
- sliding door broken
- busted furniture to chuck out
plus when winter came, we found the central heating was stuffed as well, new fan at $700, didn’t get this on insurance as we didn’t test at eviction
Clearly these were not at one time but all malicious. AAMI tried to play hard ball saying why didn’t we report to Police (how can you report something you don’t know) but they applied commonsense in the end.
And new tenants have enjoyed many demand letters and dodgy characters coming to the house asking for their money from the dude.
The only upside was he had hammers hidden in every room and I now a good collection of hammers.
FYI Peter 14.7
