After an antique dentist’s chair equipped with extraction tools was left behind in an average rental property, the experts at Belvoir, the leading letting agent in Sheffield city centre, is uncovering the sheer extend of bizarre items found after a letting term has finished.
Rick Flay, from the company who offer flats to let in Sheffield and house to rent in Sheffield said, “There’s been the usual crop of dumped hi-fi systems and scrapped PlayStations, but then comes the bizarre stuff – and every now and again we hear of a new surprise.”
“Usually tenants are no trouble and the transition between one tenant leaving and another inhabiting the property is smooth, but sometimes when a property is cleared out it is the letting agents and landlords who have to deal with the leftovers”
As well as a dentist’s chair, other items that were uncovered after tenants left various properties included a beautifully decorated Christmas tree in the in the middle of August that featured a glass eye as one of the decorations, a fish tank with two very bemused gold fish, left in the middle of the dining room floor, a montage of page three models that covered the entire upstairs of a property, a stuffed sparrow hawk mounted on a plinth, two surf boards used as ‘saloon style’ doors to get in and out of the kitchen, a box of 24 out of date Castlemaine lager with a fishing rod, a kite and a false breast, an external door that had been mounted on bricks and used as a coffee table, and a wardrobe full of brand new women’s clothes, shoes, jewellery and makeup.
Rick added, “Some items were even left as gifts for the landlord. One tenant left pickled eggs because they wanted to say thank you and thought the landlord would like them!”
If at the end of a tenancy a number of unwanted items have been left, please contact Belvoir as they can put you in touch with a number of charities that offer a free ‘pick up’
service for unwanted sellable items. Belvoir’s growing network of over 145 franchised offices stretch across the whole of the UK and look after a property portfolio valued at more than £1 billion.
Rick added, “Sometimes these ‘leftovers’ can result in the deposit being held back from the tenant – especially where damage has been caused to the property. If, as a tenant, you act according to the rules laid out in your tenancy agreement, your landlord has no right – and in the majority of cases no desire – to hold on to any of your deposit at the end of your tenancy.
“Those who do lose deposit money do so because they have simply been irresponsible at some point during their tenure,”
Belvoir Lettings Sheffield are the One Stop Specialists for Lettings including Property Management, Tenant Find, Investment and Wealth Management Advice, Fit-outs and Renovations, Furniture Packs and Investment Property Insurances
Belvoir offer a fully comprehensive one stop shop for all landlord and tenant needs. Contact us on 08452 60 40 90 or email sheffield@belvoirlettings.com
