Good tenants are hard to find. Even when you scan their credit report and rental history, you never really know what you're getting until it's too late. My grandfather's beach house is one example.

 

This is the beach house last year. Simple single level home, concrete construction right on the beach. One year later, we were left with this:


And this is just the yard...Inside, we found that the place was not cleaned and a number of things were broken (I'd put up the pics, but it's just too gruesome to look at.) So lucky me ended up scrubbing bathrooms, changing window cranks and re-tiling a bedroom (thank God for peel-and-stick tile!). Anyway, there is a little more work to do, but the rest will be done in a week. I posted the vacancy on Craigslist (http://honolulu.craigslist.org/oah/apa/666251226.htm), but still no takers yet.

So, the moral of the story is Landlords, be careful who you rent to. And on the flipside, Tenants, take better care of the place you rent. Otherwise, no security deposit refund!

On a side note, I was able to squeeze in a little fun time while fixing things and ended up with this monster catch:


YAY! 2-lb. stickfish! Not worth eating, but he put up a good fight.
Better luck next time, I guess.

Peter