In an ideal world, all tenants would treat properties like their own home. But, in reality, this just isn’t the case. Despite doing their due diligence and background checks, most property investors come across bad tenants from time to time. Here’s a quick guide to recovering from these encounters.

Get Them Out

First things first: you can’t get your property back into shape until the offending people have been removed! Speak to your legal representative to determine the appropriate action and take the necessary steps to have your house or apartment vacated. Doing everything correctly (and legally) is also key to making sure the tenant doesn’t unfairly receive their bond payment.

Pick Your Battles

Small stains on the tiles or shallow marks on the walls? Easy to fix. Large holes in the ceiling or long tears in the carpet? Not so much. A big part of bouncing back from a destructive tenant is working out which problems to repair and which ones to replace. When making this call regarding damaged floors, feel free to get in touch with our experts for some advice.

Rely on Professionals

When faced with going a few weeks without receiving rent payments, it can be tempting to save money by doing all the cleaning and repairs yourself. But with all the stress, frustration and potentially less-than-perfect results this could involve, it’s usually in your best interest to leave this work to the professionals.

Start Fresh

After a particularly nasty episode with bad tenants, your property can be left with psychological scars as well as physical ones. If it’s hard to look at a room without reliving how awful it looked in the past, this might actually be a good opportunity to give it a new look – splash on a fresh layer of paint, update the cabinetry or change the light fittings.

Dealing with the aftermath of bad tenants isn’t fun. But with a plan in place and the right advice, it doesn’t have to be a nightmare.