Tenants can be sneaky, too. We had several, in a first floor condo we had, and when I showed up on moving out day to get the keys from the last guy, his moving company hadn't arrived yet. I had to get back to work so I quickly checked out what I could grabbed the keys and left. There were still boxes (strategically as I would later learn) all over the place. Right after work I went back and he was gone but I found burns on the kitchen linoleum like the oven grate had might have been on fire and dropped on the floor and also the carpet just outside the kitchen area was burned right through the pad to the concrete. Fortunately, the security deposit almost covered renovating the place. I decided tenanting wasn't for me.
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