Tenants...

I spent almost my entire day cleaning up after a group of people who have zero respect for other people or their belongings, and I'm irritated by it. My aunt and my grandfather all have rental properties out here, and they live in the Midwest and the East Coast, respectively. Therefore, my parents and I help out with their properties. When the lease came up on my aunts house, the tenants decided not to renew, as the utilities were too expensive for them. Ok, I get that. We live in Arizona, and A/C, while necessary, is expensive. Well, theirs was expensive because they broke the back slider door, and instead of telling us, they just cranked the air down. Apparently, they didn't tell us because then we would have seen the interior of the house, and all hell would have broke loose. There were dog turds everywhere, so old that they were turning white, the carpet was completely saturated with urine, hopefully just from the dogs, windows were broken, the pool was black, and I mean BLACK, there was rotting food strewn from room to room, trash piled 3 feet high in places, a broken wheelchair (none of the tenants are disabled) holes in the wall from pool table balls, 14 different colors of paint on various walls, weeds 2 1/2 feet tall where there should have been rocks, ugh, I can continue if you'd like...

I spent the entire day hauling this trash to the dump. 2250 pounds of it, and there is still more to go. The sad part? These tenants are friends of my cousin. My aunt did them a favor by letting them rent, since as a group of college guys, they were short in the credit department. What a way to repay a favor. But then again, in all but one of the rental properties, this has been the case, some not as bad, one worse. Why on Earth is it ok to trash someone else's belonging this way? I don't get it...