05-20-2015, 01:07 PM
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Not sure they were ever 'pets' they were feral cats that learned someone was willing to feed them so they kept coming around for their free meal. Now that the food is gone they're going back to wherever they came from. I'm taking the kittens in because they're defenseless. The bigger cats are too fast and skittish to catch and can fend for themselves. And I don't have any neighbors close by and the one I do have has big dogs so they won't be going there that's for sure.
most likely, you're right the extra cats were not tenants but attracted by their "big heart" I have a cat feeder next door and it's costing me boat covers as those they are feeding and attracting with a 24 hour bowl, not many but enough, think my boat covers are for ripping. I'm not a fan of "big heart" cat feeders! In fact they'll claim it my fault for having a danged boat cover to start with.. ERRR!! It ain't my first merry go round with different "big heart" cat feeders too.
As a previous landlord you've got more troubles ahead because there is no solution to remove the spray from the males., nothing. Believe me I tried everything on earth to get it out.. lucky if concrete, you can steam clean then bleach it down and seal it too, it does not dilute or wash off!! pretty sprays like Lysol and the other junk are just temporary hide odor relievers, not a fix. .and no way Jose is it going to come out of wood unless replaced.
I liked my tenants and liked their pets too, but when you get a vacancy that, once the summer heats up the spray,, it's intolerable!! and not what I offered. makes for an extremely difficult moral challenge where I'd insure to disclose and but very few would rent or lease when I did. ..
My best, highest valued apartment with a professional lady who lived there for 5 years, 3 of them with a male cat, I never knew how bad until she moved.. that cost me 1 1/2 year vacancy as I completely redid the wood floors, etc. etc. etc. until I decided to simply disclose. The odor would not come off the external yet enclosed balcony, so disclosure wasn't too bad.
" keep those doors shut in the summer"
You're previous tenant has left you more surprises, and were I you, get them in small claims court ASAP!! .
And In the future, (I learned the hard way) yet this tenant had promised me the moon when she 1st got it. never rent to anybody who did not have their pet, any pet, all pets spayed or neutered before 1 year old. Period, zero exceptions and kick em out ASAP if they do.
although poop stains too, I'll take a spayed or neutered pooper 1 million times more than a sprayer, dog or cat. .