Well our renter who passed happened to be my husbands sister, and he was going over to fix the plumbing under the kitchen but found his sister non-responsive on the floor...just awful!
The planned leaver at least tries to clean up but it's not always the case the up and leavers in the night Bailers don't clean and leave trash and clothes and furniture. But the middle of living requires much more because the grieving family either 1. Doesn't want to deal with the stuff left behind much less mess or 2. Wants you to do whatever with all the stuff so later they can go through it if you need it out now.
Because ours was family we helped vacate it and then while cleaning we discovered someone had broken into the house and spray painted with black spray paint some numbers. It happened to be the son or the sons friends who had done it and they tried to start a fire with plastic broom bristles and a plastic wrapper of some kind.
When your property isn't occupied it's more at risk of break ins and vandalism so make it live able (fix the broken and clean the best you can as fast as you can and work it out with the next tenant to clean and fix the place up farther and you will drop the deposit since you have to have someone in there to reduce the risk of vandalism. Someone you trust of course and someone you visited their home and it wasn't planned visit but the house was well maintained...that's the friends you want to stay in your homes...but do steer clear of the victims the ones that don't have the money for rent but will next week (repeat offenders) when the lease is up tell them your sorry but you can't renew their lease and that they will have to figure something else out. I know it sounds cold hearted but you have house payments to pay and the bank isn't going to say ok next week you can pay NO they slap late charges on you and hold you to them unlike a lease that states $10 per day late charge that we friends have a hard time enforcing. Our poor friend works 2 jobs and goes to school and has two kids...um yeah stressful I agree but maybe it's time to reevaluate the life choices and hold off school till you reasonably can tackle such tasks...and cut down your cell phone to basic service and basic cable or dish and just one step up on the slow Internet so it's not want to throw the computer out the window cause it's timed out for the last time...really budget your money even cut out tv but sometimes you need Internet I understand for school or whatever...but you have many wifi hot spots around town I am sure and you can buy a small coke and sit and do your business on the net at McDonald's play land and hey your kids get to learn bad habits from other kids and be exposed to many germs and build good immunities towards sickness. So bonus! But seriously manage your money better peeps! If you can't afford rent to keep the roof over your head then your priorities are not where they should be.
Enough said on that note.
Anyway, it's not easy losing a renter that way. But it happens. People die everyday just as well as being born. It's apart of life which I wish wasn't the case but oh well, it's the way it was meant to be. I know when a renter dies you want their stuff out and the house cleaned as fast as your able so it's not empty for too long...the grieving family may not feel the same rush and may need to be served eviction notice if the family cannot do what is required of them to do with their deceased loved ones stuff. It feels cold hearted, do state your condolences and even explain that leaving the home vacant is putting your property at risk of vandalism and maybe just maybe they will understand your urgency and it not being about the money as most renters think we are rich off their rent that barely if at all pays the house payment and insurance on the home then figure in the repairs through out the month (which have you noticed only gets mentioned when the renter is handing you their months rent as if thinking if they say it now your doing them a favor cause now you have the rent so you can pay for the parts to fix it) la de da lol so yeah. If you are breaking even or coming out with profit on your rentals congrats you calculated the right amount to ask for rent each month! If your like me and my husband barely scraping by and even going in the hole each month despite efforts of down sizing cell phone services as well as luxury items that add to the flow going out. Even after your scraping the bottom of the bowl to keep what you need to survive while your renters go out to eat every night about and go to casinos every weekend and have all the movie channels and dvr services and web and multimedia text messaging the works on everyone in the households cell phones, and faster Internet than you've got and a ymca membership that you had to cut out of your budget too and still expect every bulb every gadget in the house to work but fail to mention issues until your there to collect rent um yeah it sucks to be us right now cuz we under budgeted but soon we may raise rent on our dear friends despite their claims they can't afford a penny more cuz they can't budget down anything in their home. So while wishing to be able to fix up our own home we live in every other weekend rentals take focus while our home gets nothing fixed...we are slowly figuring out what works and what doesn't and that's kinda what this blog is my venting my ramblings as we figure this rental business out.
Hope you have enjoyed my blog thus far...but it's hard to know for sure since no one comments. I personally have never been a renter but from what I've found my renters to expect it must be the life!
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