The view from my rental apartment. Now that lockdown is easing up and people are allowed back to work, and allowed to travel more easily between metropolitan areas, I took the opportunity to go into Cape Town today to start getting quotes on repairs required after evicting a non paying tenant, and one who caused a lot of damage and left behind a lot of slimy mould around windows that were never opened or cleaned, a bath that is so disgusting I wouldn't even stand in it, never mind sit in it to bath... etc. I am eternally grateful that I managed to get them out just before the moratorium on evictions which is still in place due to Covid. Oh how I love this apartment.
Great capture of this wonderful view, no wonder you love the apartment. I sure hope that you can get it sorted out, so sad when people behave like that.
@narayani The rental agent had taken just one month's rental as a damage deposit. Tenant frequently didn't pay full rental each month and there were lots of complaints from other residents so I had given him notice to vacate at end of his lease. He refused to vacate, but then didn't pay any more rent, so I then had legal letters sent with a notification that the sheriff of the court would arrive to attach his property if he wasn't out by midday on 16th March. At the end of that same week a moratorium on evictions was tabled pending lockdown the following week, so I was very lucky indeed to get him out with only days to spare. Lockdown meant that I wasn't able to start effecting the repairs and cleanup until now. One of his family members even had difficulty parking the vehicle in the garage and managed to drive into the side of the entrance buckling the garage door hinge so I have to have the pair of hinges replaced, as well as the motor which has suffered impact damage somehow. So many tiles are missing from the doorway into the bathroom that I suspect they broke them trying to get something big through there, and the bath is so revolting that I have decided to just gut the bathroom and renovate it instead of trying to repair it.
@seacreature good grief!! I thought you usually had it for short term holiday rental. This person sounds a nightmare. It happens here too. I don’t understand how people can be so disrespectful.
yah, I have a shocking story of being a landlady once, ended up with a meth lab and needed police to sort which took months. the state of the place after was just horrible! glad you can start putting things to rights now
@koalagardens Oh my word - a meth lab!!! I just had this guy drying dagga/cannabis/weed that he was growing on a farm just outside of town. I wonder if that is why they couldn't aim their vehicle correctly into the garage?
