VIDEO: Landlord gets revenge on nightmare tenants

A French landlord took extreme action to get his own
back on irresponsible tenants who left his property filthy and
piled high with junk – by dumping it all outside their new
home.

Thomas Ravaux, from Rozoy-sur-Serre in the
north-eastern Aisne region, shamed the nightmare tenants in a
Facebook post last week which has attracted more than 2,500
shares.

He told L’Union that the family had left the property
without any notice a year ago, without returning his keys or giving
him a chance to perform a final inventory.

Photos and videos taken when he was finally able
to access the flat last week show filthy rooms crammed with
abandoned furniture, toys, clutter and rubbish. The walls and
floors are dirty and damaged, and there is even cat excrement on
the floors.

“This is how this flat was returned to me,” he
wrote. “Living like that with three kids, bravo.”

“Shame on you,” he said. “Good luck to your new
landlord!”

A few days later, after clearing out the
property, he came up with a novel way to return the heaps of
abandoned junk to their rightful owner.

On Tuesday, he uploaded a video of a truck
pulling up outside what he says is the tenants’ new
address.

“Return to sender,” Ravaux quips as the truck,
piled high with furniture, appliances and other belongings, dumps
its load outside the property.

The clip has gone viral in France, where
generous legal protections for renters can make dealing with
problem tenants a long and costly process for landlords.