From: Jakk Bass - The SLUM LORD
G'Day all,
Just thought I'd share an experience.
A guy rings me to rent a 6 x 3 metre self storage unit, I inform him of the rental and ask what it is he wants to store.
He tells me some household furniture and some building materials.
OK deal done, I allocate a storage unit and he supplies his own padlock and keeps the key, standard procedure in this industry.
He pays me 3 months in advance, in cash, I take down all his details including car rego.
anyway 6 months later and no more payments and some returned accounts, I take possession of storage unit and contents.
On opening of storage shed I find it chock a block full of old asbestos cement sheet house cladding.
Car rego turns out to be number plates from a car that hasn't been registered for 5 years and last registered owner knows nothing of the guy that rented the storage unit.
Yes I know I should have checked the rego label and sighted his drivers license, but these matters were overlooked in my haste to put his cash in my wallet.
An expensive lesson learned as this will cost me about 5 times what I got as rental to get this asbestos removed.
Hope that at least others may learn from this.
regards
Jakk
**One doesn't recognise in one's life the really important moments - not until it's too late** - Dame Agatha Christie
G'Day all,
Just thought I'd share an experience.
A guy rings me to rent a 6 x 3 metre self storage unit, I inform him of the rental and ask what it is he wants to store.
He tells me some household furniture and some building materials.
OK deal done, I allocate a storage unit and he supplies his own padlock and keeps the key, standard procedure in this industry.
He pays me 3 months in advance, in cash, I take down all his details including car rego.
anyway 6 months later and no more payments and some returned accounts, I take possession of storage unit and contents.
On opening of storage shed I find it chock a block full of old asbestos cement sheet house cladding.
Car rego turns out to be number plates from a car that hasn't been registered for 5 years and last registered owner knows nothing of the guy that rented the storage unit.
Yes I know I should have checked the rego label and sighted his drivers license, but these matters were overlooked in my haste to put his cash in my wallet.
An expensive lesson learned as this will cost me about 5 times what I got as rental to get this asbestos removed.
Hope that at least others may learn from this.
regards
Jakk
**One doesn't recognise in one's life the really important moments - not until it's too late** - Dame Agatha Christie
Last edited by a moderator: