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Funnily enough, this time last year I started a similar discussion in our Linkedin Group ;

' Best (or worst!) booty tenants have left behind in your property? '

Can you beat any of these?

Wendy Evans-Scott • A swarming army of fleas! It was a hot day and I turned up to do the check-out wearing a skirt; within minutes my legs were literally covered in fleas. Needless to say, I ran out quickly, desperately trying to brush the little critters off, and did not continue the check-out until after the place had been fumigated. It was quite revolting. I was convinced some had taken up residence in my car for weeks afterwards!

Andrew Gunner • The worst thing I was greeted with I can only use honest terms to describe…. a shit in the middle of the living room floor!

The best thing I was left by a tenant was a flat screen TV, Hi-Fi and Leather sofa. I got hold of the tenant and he said he hadn't had time to pack them and I could keep them! All nearly new, high quality, it was a good day to work for a letting agents!

Richard Lambourne • I found a stunning Breitling watch left in a drawer unit. I was clearing loads of junk left by the tenant and i contacted him about the watch, he said he was back in Italy don`t bother you keep it!! Mega rich Italian student!!

Kirsten Pepper • Hi – this isn't the worst nor the best but more frustrating. Why oh why do students put blue tac everywhere, I get so disheartened having to charge for walls to be re painted because the these marks left behind. Oh and will all parents please teach their children how to clean.

One blood bath mattress this year wins for the worst.

Zac Buchan Miles & Barr Estate Agents • 10 year old porn stash! VHS included! The guy was a serious collector. The cleaner chucked them out, so I'm told!!

Matthew Williams • The best thing was an original demo tape from a band called Gomez recorded before they hit fame. I sold it on ebay for £180.00. The worst was only last Thursday where a tenant had left a raw chicken carcass in a shopping bag behind the sofa. I can still smell it now. And why do student tenants think irons are disposable? I could open a second hand iron shop with the amount I find left behind.

Sharon Ruis • I think the most amusing thing I’ve found left behind in a house was a set of metal handcuffs complete with keys, which were left in the bottom draw of a bedside table.
Now this house had been rented furnished for a year to members of the Thai Embassy while the owners were overseas. It was while I was conducting the out going inspection, with the owner, that the item was found. I jokingly asked if they belonged to the owner or if they had been left behind by the tenant. The owner looked embarrassed and said they must have belonged to the tenants. I picked them up along with a small box sitting next to them with the intention of throwing them. After saying good bye to the owner I walked to my car carrying the handcuffs and the small box. I looked at the box and noticed the expiry date of the condoms. Hmmmm they expired before the tenants had moved in so maybe the condoms and handcuffs really belonged to the owner.

BTW I did throw the condoms out but still have the handcuffs 

[ From The Lettings Team @ Sewell & Gardner ]

Hey there,

We had a footballer vacate leaving a fridge full of champagne.
He said we could keep it … so we had a lovely boozy time!

Ian Fleming • Worst was finding the chard remains of the kitchen units in the fireplace, they were keeping warm by burning the property doors and kitchen units as they had taken out the boiler and sold it to cover their drug habit and they were not even the tenants. He has sub let it out as soon as we had done one of our periodic checks. I am sure if we had not checked again their would have just been a shell of a property.

[ From Rosario Guarneri - Principal RG Property Consultancy, Brighton UK ]

In one of my houses the tenant left 15 bicycles behind!
God knows where they all come from!
I donated them to charity. It feels good to give to others who don't have the means…

Regards,
RosarioGuarneri.

Yvonne Marsden • Most annoying is the blue tak – and my latest batch left a message in q-tips super glued to a chest of drawers. One delightful tenant left meat in a freezer, turned it off and put the heating on full blast. Am still awaiting a nice surprise

@cleanteamnw (on twitter) replies:

' How about £700 pounds worth of class b drugs? O and we found a Gun once haha #Manchester #weseeitall '

@cazzypot (on twitter) replies:

' wow, I thought I was unlucky: a broken cot, an old TV and a terrible paint-job! '

@Landlord_Legal (on twitter) replies :

' the most interesting thing left behind by a tenant was a coffin.. Luckily, an empty one!

here's the silly proof.. Share at will, lol! '

@brendadada (on twitter) replies :

' Single bed base full of dog poo, 8 pizzas face down dried like glue to wooden floors, full nappies down the back of radiators…

sheaf of correspondence with agent, none of which had been communicated to me, nicotine thick chip fat obscuring wallpaper….

Worst was extreme flooding affecting 2 adjoining houses. Tenant denied access to fix. Damage in £ thousands. '