British Expats - Tenants did a runner!

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Originally Posted by OTA63 (Post 12380287)

May be little to do with this thread but I think that the OP and those of you who have experienced similar must have been devastated. I think it is appalling that a tenant would treat a landlord and their property in such an appalling way.
My wife are intending to move to the Torrevieja area next November to live and will be wanting to rent long term as our home. We would never even give a passing thought to behaving in such a way.
This sort of thing can only serve to give genuine renters a bad name and make it more difficult to find a decent place to rent with a good landlord.
Can those of you affected not name and shame particularly if those "tenants" are still living in the same area. Put an ad in local shops or the local rag to warn other landlords and hopefully make it impossible for these people to rent another property.

Chatting with an estate agent friend of mine on the Costa del Sol about rental and tenants she advised me that the agents do have a "blacklist" of tenants whom they would never arrange rentals for . So two things :
1. There are some "good" agents out there
2. They know who the "baddies" are but obviously only at the cost of experience which means an owner somewhere has been badly let down.