For the 1st time, we tried to have a guy tenant in our hse, since he seems to be quite well kept during viewing of room. But then the nightmare starts since the day he shifted in.
Both hubs & I were deem to be easy going persons but then we do haf our limit. More so, when our hse is newly renovated and we did spend ALL our savings on it, it is onli natural that we want to upkeep our things as long as we can.
The tenant in question, is a Filipino guy in his 40s who worked as an IT manager in 1 of the manufacturing plant here. He told us that he would not be home most of the time due to work and will be out during wkends as he want to roam about. Fair enuff, we tot, means he juz need a sleeping place.
The 1st warning sign came when after we strike a deal with him den I suddenly rememebered to ask him whether he is a smoker. He seems abit hesitant in answering this question but finally admit to being 1. We were then relucant to accept him, but he keep promising that he would not smoke in the house and will go dowastairs to smoke. Seeing that he is sincere in this,we decided to gave it a try.
On the day that he shifted in, we realised that he had alot of things, more than 1 room can fit. And he tried to cheat abit by asking us whether he could leave his shoe rack in my living room (I rejected), and he left a humungous box outside his room, asking for a few days grace as he wanna send it back home (we agreed) and aso a small fan on top of the box as our room is equipped with a fan and he did not want to place it inside. Lastly, his TV box, is aso left outside his room.
It makes my living room looks messy now that some of his things are left there. He shows no sign of wanting to remove it anytime soon. I told hubs that I would give him 1 month, den we will speak to him. If he cleared within the 1st month, den all is good. Also, there is another tenant in the house, how would she feel if she sees that we allowed him to place his things outside of the room but not her? To be fair, we decided to be firm with the rule of keeping their things strictly inside their room.
For a start, things were quite ok except that we noticed he would close the doors extremely hard as he is lazy to pull down the handles to close the doors. Heart pain is 1 thing, as I always see my main gate vibrating whenever he closes the it, the other thing is, he has the habit of having a smoke early in the morning when he wakes up and late into the night juz before sleeping. Whenever he closes the doors, we will be awake by the loud banging. At 1st, we tried to ignore, but it got irritating after a while.But how do I tell him (an adult) to close to door more softly? It like giving instructions to a baby.
Also, after a wk or so, we noticed he got lazy and did not go downstairs for his smoke. Instead, he would juz stand at the corridoor and smoke away while all the smoke get blows into our living room. Wats the difference of allowing you to smoke inside and outside of the hse??We still get the smoke which is wat we dun wan!!!He would aso leave the door unlock while he smoke and when he walks over to the chute to throw away his ciggie.
To him, SG is safe enuff to leave the door unlock and walk away for a short awhile. Call me kiasee but then given his routine smoking time, I am afraid plp might noticed and "aimed" our hse. We tried toking to him bout locking the door but then the excuse he gave that he is juz outside!!He did however cooperate but onli when he sees us sitting in the living room, once we retreat to our room, he resumes to his old ways thinking that we were aslp.
There was this particular night when I hear him closing the door without locking and came out of my room to the living room, he got a shock and look paiseh when he came bak, but I was oredi beri pissed with his lazy ways. Mum feedback to me that there was once while she was at my hse, he juz came home and leave the door wide open and went to his room for quite sometime while looking for something. Would it kill him to lock the gate after him? He would do this infront of me too.. I cannot imagine if no 1 is ard and he did this and someone juz slipped into our hse without him realising as he closes his room door. I cannot risk it.
We would aso notice his other lazy ways, like washing his clothes after 2 wks and took up all the space we have to hang his clothes. We werent too please as there are 3 other persons doing the washing every wk to clear our laundry. He did not even have the courtesy to check with us if we are going to do the laundry or not and instead take matters into his own hands. He would aso leave his clothes hanging there for wks till he have no more new clothes to wear.
Then, I noticed that he would wear his home clothes revsered so that he can wear it longer. Nearly fainted when he told me this.Government often told us that this foreign talents are need to boost our economy when they come here to work. Tell me, how can he contribute to SG when he is juz down rite lazy? Manager somemore!!!
I listen to his boasting of going to smoking breaks, tea breaks blah blah blah, seems like he worked less than 5hrs a day, got paid as a manager and smmore can sneer that his boss. He told us that he would onli act to be on time on days he knew his boss is coming to office. There was once he woke up late at 7.30 when his work time is 8am. He can calmly go outside for his smoke and still slowly go take a shower. This kind of working attitude would get kicked from my company in no time. I can safely say most of us abide strictly to our working hours, lunch time. The way he describes his working style is as he is takin salary for smoking and having tea break in his company, anyting else, its been directed to his subordinates...
Anyways, enuff is enuff, told hubs to tell him tat we are not use to his living habits and decided that we will not rent out the room to home. He is given a mth's grace to find some place to move to. He tired to plead with us initially, promising he will change, top up the utilities bills (which shot up double since he moved in) etc..but we were firmed in our decision. We couldnt risk trusting him as we do not know when he will revert to his old ways. He den tried to bargain with us, telling us its not easy to find a place to move within a mth's time(bullshit) and ask us to let him stay till he gets a new place.
Luckily, we were prepared for all these, and hubs told him max is 2wks more and he will need to shift out. We do not want him to drag on n on..A day later, he told hubs that he would shift out by the wkend and request us to refund him the remainding rental of the month. We actually had the mind to forfeit it de but decided otherwise for it may be a better idea of him to move out as quickly as possible.
After he moved out, I spent 3days cleanin up his room which is full of smoke smell!!! Damn pissed off, have to use the aroma therapy thingy to smoke the room to get rid of the smell, clean ALL the wardrobe and cupboards, washed the curtains and sweep & mopped the floor. Can you imagine that throughout the 2 mths he is with us, he did not even clean the room? Even the trash bin is full of stains...agggrrrrrr....
Am glad that we got rid of him, and now we have a female singaporean staying in the room. Hopefully she will be better than him. But then again, I think its quite difficult to get someone who is worse than him.
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