Filthy tenant leaves house crammed with bottles, cigarette ends and food scraps

"It's absolutely disgusting, I've no idea how anybody can live like that.

"It just goes to show how important it is to employ a managing agent and for tenants to regularly inspect their properties."

The landlord - who has asked for the property's full address to be withheld - only suspected there was a problem when the tenant would not let a gas engineer in to check the boiler.

Notice was served, but the tenant fled and left the landlord to face a bill of thousands of pounds to clean the property and return it to its former state.

Although Ms Clarke's firm was not involved with the property while the untidy tenant lived there, they are managing the new tenancy.

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She said: "We do come across situations like this from time to time.

"In this case, the unsuspecting landlord had not expected anything this bad, even though he had not visited his tenant for a number of years."

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Filthy tenant leaves house crammed with bottles, cigarette ends and food scraps