A landlord claims a nightmare tenant left his home with two years of litter including 200 bottles of urine and bags of faeces. 

Jan Pringle has told the Plymouth Live news website that he evicted the tenant from a one-bedroom basement flat after the resident refused to let him carry out checks on the property for the two years they lived there.

When Pringle got possession of the property he could barely get the door open due to the three feet worth of rubbish, including 200 vodka bottles filled with urine and bags of faeces.

He tells the site: “There were a couple of hundred bottles of wee and bags of poo and I could smell it. I had to crawl over the rubbish wearing a mask and gloves because it’s completely full. You can’t get to the bedroom or bathroom. The toilet was blocked. The rubbish was composting. There were takeaway boxes, eggshells, and empty tins.

“It was two years’ worth of rubbish. There’s one bit of space on the sofa where they must have sat all day and slept. There’s a nice garden outside but the windows and blinds have never been opened. If someone challenged me to make that much mess in two years it would be difficult.”

Pringle lets the flat out unfurnished for £575 per month. The tenant had originally been on a six-month contract which switched to a rolling one.

The landlord continues: “The upstairs neighbour said that he’d never taken the bins out and never left the flat so I was worried about him. Around six or seven months ago, I contacted some welfare charities to see if they would make sure he was ok but they said there was nothing they could do because he hadn’t come forward himself.

“I’m not angry with the tenant. He’s slipped through the net. The system is broken. He needs help. I don’t know how someone can live like that. It’s harsh that there’s no one there to look after him.”

You can see the whole story, and photographs, here: https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/my-tenant-left-behind-two-9877354