Filthy tenant leaves house crammed with bottles, cigarette ends and food scraps
Landlord left with huge cleaning bill for house so dirty you could not see the carpet
The house before the clean up Photo: Caters
By Agency
1:22PM GMT 21 Feb 2015
These are the shocking pictures taken by a landlord of a house stacked with empty bottles, cigarette ends and food scraps.
This is how one Telford resident lived for several years, in a house that had so much rubbish they weren't able to see their own carpet, let alone walk on it.
The landlord was left to clear it up when he entered his property after the long-term tenant, who has not been named, moved out.
Dawn Clarke, director of property agents Nock Deighton, said: "This is a landlord's worst nightmare.
"I've been in the property industry for over thirty years and this is by far the worst thing I've ever seen.
"It's absolutely disgusting, I've no idea how anybody can live like that.
"It just goes to show how important it is to employ a managing agent and for tenants to regularly inspect their properties."
The landlord - who has asked for the property's full address to be withheld - only suspected there was a problem when the tenant would not let a gas engineer in to check the boiler.
Notice was served, but the tenant fled and left the landlord to face a bill of thousands of pounds to clean the property and return it to its former state.
Although Ms Clarke's firm was not involved with the property while the untidy tenant lived there, they are managing the new tenancy.
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She said: "We do come across situations like this from time to time.
"In this case, the unsuspecting landlord had not expected anything this bad, even though he had not visited his tenant for a number of years."
