We see all kinds of horror stories about bad landlords, but today we’re gonna flip the script.

That’s right, folks, this story is from the perspective of a landlord who had to deal with some really terrible and inconsiderate tenants in a house he owns.

Check out how he got a bit of petty revenge on these jerks after they moved out.

Trash my property, I’ll trash your memories.

“I had been renting a home to a family for about 8 years.

I rented through an agency so I tried to be as hands-off as possible but I still helped out when I could. Any major appliance breakdowns or issues were addressed as quickly as I could. I like to believe that what goes around comes around, good and bad alike.

They had some interesting problems though. At one point the stove broke and would only go on high. Not a big deal to fix, maybe $80 in parts. But they didn’t tell me about it.

Oh, no!

Instead they decided to leave oil in a pan and walked away to fold laundry. The grease caught fire and destroyed the microwave and left smoke damage. I was mad, but bad stuff happens, so I let it slide.

About 13 months ago they sent me a text saying “There was a fire, it’s bad”. The garage was totally destroyed. The fire investigator said a cigarette likely started the blaze since it was tossed into a pile of trash.

Tenants didn’t even know the house was on fire because they removed the batteries from all the smoke detectors because they wouldn’t stop beeping…

Obviously they had to leave since the house was uninhabitable. We didn’t straight up evict them, they did it to themselves. My rental agency never did a final walk through and never collected their keys.

What a mess…

The house has been under restoration ever since. It’s been about $90,000 in insurance claims and my premium has quadrupled. Now in an effort to make it presentable again, my family and I have been painting and replacing the needed items.

Turns out their teenage son let himself into the house at some point and kicked in some walls and carved his name into about 20 places in the house. There were many other things but I’m trying to keep this brief.

As for revenge…

This weekend I was in the attic replacing bathroom vents. When I went into the attic I found 3 boxes stored away. One of them has a NES with a dozen games or so. The others were labeled “Son’ name memories”.

Ouch!

They contained baby blankets, stuffed animals and other trinkets. I took special joy in placing the boxes out for bulk trash to pick up and smiled as I watched them get crushed by the trash truck.

If you don’t care about people’s stuff, you can’t expect them to care about yours.”

Check out what folks had to say on Reddit.

This person weighed in.

Another Reddit user shared their thoughts.

This individual spoke up.

Another person weighed in.

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And this Reddit user spoke up.

He’s gonna probably do some extra poking around next time he lets anyone rent that house!

You can never be too careful, right?

That’s correct!

These tenants were pretty awful!