How can someone live like that

How horrible Gabs. When I used to rent I always scrubbed the place out before leaving. I wanted my deposit back! LOL. A friend asked us to clean his flat out after he had rented it out. When we went in we found cat litter dumped in a wardrobe and the carpet literally "bubbled" with cat fleas. I am allergic to cats and came out in a hideous rash that took days to go and received loads of flea bites - it's not true that they don't bite humans! I hope that you get it all together. Are you moving to the place starting with "H". XXXX

Some people don't deserve to be called pigs, because pigs are in fact very clean animals. Landlord has a right to keep flat deposit if place is left in poor condition. I used to live in few apartments here in Chicago before I move into my house. I left each place spotless in perfect condition. In the other hand, landlord is responsible to paint the place once every 2 years or after people move out. The chances are that he didn't paint the place for the long time.

Awww, isn't that amazing that people are like that? I know what you're talking about as I use to clean apartment buildings for a living years ago. What some of those people did just took me by surprise. One even left the whole house completely trashed and the pets too. They left a baby iguana, fish, and a cat, and never came back. Everyone who worked there took one of the pets to keep. The cages were filthy and so was the apartment..even the couch was overturned. I was going to take the baby iguana..he was soooo cute, but one of the guys there raised them and really wanted it, so I told him sure, take it. I felt the little guy would have a better life with him than me, as I knew nothing about iguanas. I ended up with the fish, haha. I hope your new landlord fixes it up really cute for you and Gissy. Good luck and I hope you find some happiness there and warmth.

I have always wondered how people live like slobs. I watch the show "Hoarders" sometimes and can't believe what people live in. Its so disgusting. They live with garbage surrounding them. The kitchen or bathroom are horrid to look at. I will never understand it. Especially how do they live with the smell alone. I just can't believe how many people live like this that you can actually have a show on TV with different people each week living like this. I love living in a house where everything is clean and in its proper place at all times. I can't deal with messes at all.

Hello, Gabs. I'm not houseproud by any means, but I couldn't live like that. We have friends coming to visit tomorrow, so I've spent the last few days cleaning every inch of our apartment. I told my husband Tony to keep moving, because if he stood still for more than a few seconds, he'd get a squirt of Pledge or a flick with a damp cloth. These people obviously have no standards and no self respect. I'll leave the washing up for a whole day if I feel like it, but no way would my place ever smell, and if tiles came off, they'd soon be put back again. It makes me wonder if they had some twisted idea that if the place was really bad, the landlord would let them stay, as nobody else would want it. however, that still doesn't explain why anyone would choose to live like that in the first place. Good luck with the move.

I can't imagine that there are people who can live like that. For me, it does not matter whether the house is big or small as long as it is clean. One thing that I miss whenever I am away from home is the clean smell of sheets in my bedroom. If it would be me living in that place you had just described I will go crazy. A house should always be clean not just for it to look good but also because of health reasons. Besides, how could you sleep well in that kind of place with that kind of smell and dirt. I would go itchy all over and might even get rashes. My skin gets easily irritated by dirt and dusts. I am sure that if my place will be like that I will be sneezing almost ever minute. Argh!

After moving 700 times I have seen the worst places in the world and some we took would take me a month just to get it clean and workable for us! If things needed replaced or done by landlord I would get on to them. I never left a place in bad shape for the next person needed a clean place ot move into! Good luck I hope he gets it fixed up real soon!

I hope you did not have to pay or sign anything. Did you make it plain that the deal depended on how the apartment looked after it was fixed up? It would be too terrible if you gave up where you live now and stopped your benefits etc. and you did not like what the renovations had been done!

I'm very glad to hear that he was so apologetic. He sounds determined to fix it, so I hope he tackles that flat and gets people to make it look even better than it did orignally. Is it hard to picture living there because of the mess? I hope you get all the benefit stuff done easily. When I first moved after I got my benefits, it seemed like I had to jump a few hoops to get everything taken care of how they wanted.

People who live like that have no respect for themselves or others. They just leave their messes in the world and move on. What they don't realize is when you live like that you carry it with you as baggage.

We cannot simply predict how we are make a living daily but we need to continue besides of any struggle we face in a particular time. I can't conceptualize for what you mean here. I'm sorry for the matter that will be troubling in your mind, my friend. I wish you luck all your ways and do some success in your life...Have a nice day!!!

Well i'm sorry to hear you have had some trouble with that. And I agree, it really is disgusting that people can live in such a state. Now i'm not saying that our place is the best looking, but hey atleast it is clean and doesn't smell! Some people just have no self respect at all. I wish you the best of luck with your move, assuming that the flat is done up ok! Lee.

I have seen the way some people live and I can't believe it. My brother's house was a mess! He had two dogs and a cat and he would let them go to the bathroom anywhere they wanted! Instead of doing dishes he would just eat out of the pots and then leave them lying everywhere. He was going to lose the house so he just left and left everything there (including the pets) and sent me a letter asking me to take care of everything. I did what I could and found homes for the animals. I couldn't stay there too long at one time because the smell would make me sick! I took the washer and dryer and the fridge, but I almost had to sand blast them before I could use them. My mother's neighbor keeps everything. There is just a path to get to the bathroom. Her son can't sleep in his bedroom, as he can't get to the bed. She has one room that she hasn't been in for so long, she doesn't remember if it's carpeted or not. She has demonstrations like candle parties etc. and doesn't even clean up when she knows she is getting company. In a way your lucky they were such bad tenants. You'll have an almost new apartment! I feel sorry for the landlord though, he's going to have a lot of work to do. Most landlords visit their tenants every once in a while to fix things. You would have thought he would have known what condition it was in & not showed it till they moved out. Moving is such a pain. What a terrible job you have ahead of you! It can be stressful and expensive. It will all be worth it though in the long run.

i have rental house and because people have trashed them you have to make a cleaning depoist unreal just to recover what you can but these type of people have in there heads o well it not mine i did't have to pay for it so they trash it after some of the mess that i have to go in and clean it make me wonder why some of these people don't kill themself from just the gas from the rotten food and to top it all off we live in texas and that mean cockroaches if you dont keep a clean house.and keep bug jell out

I have some family that is like that. I believe they do not even believe anything is wrong. I do not see how they do it. I fear to go to their bathroom. The smell in one house is awful, it has even gotten on their dishes. I had one in my house and it was making a smell in my house. I had to get it out. Have a great day.

OK I'm not exactly a neat freak, but when I move out of a place I at least take everything out and leave it swept and vacuumed. Some people really have no respect, I guess.

Hi, gabds8513. I think that the landlord should have had the place cleaned before he allowed you to view it. That would have given you a great impression about the management. It was nice that he apologized and it is great that the agency is putting their foot down to get this place in order. These previous tenants should be punished for leaving this place in this unkempt and smelly order. Once it is all cleaned, sprayed and sorted out it will look nice for you and Gissi. I hope that you enjoy your new home. It is a shame that tenants fail to take care of the place that they were staying in. This makes it harder for the next person whom decides to move into this place. I once rented out an apartment and the landlord, did not bother to clean this apartment up. When I was moving my things into this place, it had roaches and mice. The kitchen was so filthy and there was all kinds of residue of some of everything on the counter tops. The carpet in the front room was very dirty. When my kids sat on it or took their shoes and socks off, the floor left their feet and clothes, so black and nasty! I did not keep this apartment too long. It carried too much of germs. The kitchen floor was very slippery by the door way. There was a leak coming from the kitchen faucet. They fixed this, but the floor was still wet. The cabinets was so filthy. I smelled urine on the counter top. It was just disgusting in this apartment! My cousin was complaining that my landlord needs to get someone in the apartment to clean it up. He did not approve of the condition of this apartment. It was so nasty in there, that I purposely left my two sofas because I did not want to carry any bugs to my new place. My landlord did not clean because she worked out a deal with me. I would have to clean it myself being that she did not charge me an security deposit. But, I still felt that she should have allowed it to get cleaned by her staff. I had to throw away the old tenants clothing and mess!! I will never rent from anyone that does not care about my well being! Where I live at now, is very clean. When I first walked into this apartment, it was very clean. And it smelled very nice. I am glad that your landlord and the agency cared about the condition that this place was in. I hope that you and Gissi will feel comfortable living in your new place very soon. Take care.

Hi Gabs, i think its terrible for people to live like that and not even bothering to tidy it when they know someone was going to come round to veiw it, I know my place is not that tidy but if I know someone is coming, I make sure its nice and tidy and clean, I just hope it will all go well for you hun as you deserve to have a nice place that you like and warm, also for Gissi, keep fingers crossed for you. Love and hugs. Tamara xxxxx

Sounds as though there is NO excuse for their living condition. Maybe they are leaving feuding with the landlord & doing their best to make it difficult for him to find a new tenant. I pray you're content once it has been cleaned up. I have NO doubt that you will settle in nicely. However, I'm wondering what trials & tribulations will be brought on by Gissi!!! He will be happy to be with Mum & will have an array of NEW places to wander through & check out. I do hope & pray you BOTH enjoy your new home!!!

Many years ago, I started working for a gas company in Michigan, USA and I was a meter reader. In the older sections, the gas meters were installed in the basements, so I had to go into 200-300 homes every day to read the gas meter. You would not believe the sights I saw while going into that many homes. It ran the gamut from spotlessly clean homes to people living in filth and garbage. I saw homes that looked like animals lived in them. One basement I remember was exactly that. It's where the dogs lived and I had to tip toe my way through piles of excrement to get to the meter. Another one I remember was filled with dirty clothes. The entire basement floor was covered with several layers of dirty clothes. You literally could not see the concrete floor anywhere. Another had a hole in the floor where a water leak had gone unfixed and rotted right through to the basement. Some homes looked like they never, ever got cleaned at all. I could go on but you get the idea. Some people live like they care nothing about their home at all. It's amazing. After about two and half years, I transferred out of the meter reading department into the street department and worked on underground gas lines. I figured digging in dirt was probably cleaner than going in a lot of the homes I had been in and I never regretted the decision.