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Tenants totally destroyed my rental property. It is a total loss. I need to sue, and garnish. I am at a loss as to how to start.
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Oregon tenents finally left the rental. The five acres are totally ruined and have to be rerocked, planted and more. Drainage is all destroyed. They broke the water main to the house.
They broke all windows in the barn and two sliders that went to the sunroom on the end of the barn.
The inside, windows are broken, holes kicked in walls, huge hole in hallway.Doors all have holes, doorknobs are gone,Dishwasher is gone, Furnace control is gone, Ceiling is caving in, decks are ruined, front porch is ruined.
Junk is everywhere.
Property is a total loss. Beautiful 5 acres on the side of a mountain. 3 bedroom was a nice modular home.
They also caused damage to the rental property I owned next door.
I need help as how to proceed. thank you thank you!
There should be no doubt that you need to retain an attorney. You obviously have claims available to you, and you start that process by consulting with legal counsel. Where it goes from there depends on who the former tenants are, where they are, and a number of other factors.
You are still obligated to send the former tenants an accounting of any security deposit within 31 of the termination of the lease, but it nonetheless seems that you likely could properly withhold all of it.
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Check with your homeowner 's insurance. This actually sounds like vandalism even though you were renting to these people. If the insurance covers this than you can collect the insurance to make repairs less your deductible and leave the insurance company to go after these folks which they will. It also sounds like criminal behavior since they took your dishwasher which didn't belong to them and it sounds like they took other things like door knobs. Have you made a police report? The police may be able to pursue them and a criminal prosecution might include an order for them to pay restitution.
You can sue them of course, directly, but that will cost you money and these don't sound like the type of people that you will have an easy time collecting your money from even if you win. Getting the police or insurance company involved might be more economical options and even those options may or may not work. You might just have to bare the cost of fixing this yourself and if you rent in the future do background checks and get a substantial deposit in advance.
