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My dad had all sorts of horror stories from when he was a property manager looking after several apartment buildings.

They had to evict a tenant for non-payment of rental fees, gave him to the end of the month to move out. When the tenant was gone, my dad discovered they'd taken EVERYTHING with them. All the light fixtures, all the electrical outlets and switches, all the plumbing fixtures, faucets, toilets, etc, they'd even pulled up all the hardwood flooring. Nice.
This might be already known and this is probably old too. So What I learned from my experience with rental properties is if everything including copper pipe and wire is gone, usually them folks are crystal meth addicts. The ones that vacate at 2am are 120% positively meth heads.
 
My deadbeat tenants were the meth dealers apparently. They didn't manage to gut everything before they left but they stole a LOT and damaged a lot. I think part of the reason they didn't take everything was that they still thought they could claim squatter's rights or something and maybe thought they could stop us from moving back in. They felt so entitled that after Mom and I moved back and Dad was still finishing up his last year of service before mandatory retirement they kicked our door in (I realized they'd made copies of our keys before giving them back and were still coming in after they moved out) to steal more stuff. They stole a breaker box with all the breakers, over 100ft of cable, electrical outlets, phone jacks, furniture, curtains, tools, etc.
They peppered oru driveway with rusty nails and screws and acted like we were the ones who wronged them when they had done well over $60k worth of damages to the place and not paid rent in YEARS. They were mad we messed up their criminal enterprise of growing, processing, & selling drugs plus having dogfights. They converted our barn to a dogfight arena and kidnapped other neighbors' dogs to use for "training" their dogs. If the neighbor hadn't been best buds with the chief of police he would have been in jail.

I remember watching one of the tv court cases where the former tenant was a plumber and was super angry about being evicted for non-payment so he poured cement down the vent pipes.
 
My deadbeat tenants were the meth dealers apparently. They didn't manage to gut everything before they left but they stole a LOT and damaged a lot. I think part of the reason they didn't take everything was that they still thought they could claim squatter's rights or something and maybe thought they could stop us from moving back in. They felt so entitled that after Mom and I moved back and Dad was still finishing up his last year of service before mandatory retirement they kicked our door in (I realized they'd made copies of our keys before giving them back and were still coming in after they moved out) to steal more stuff. They stole a breaker box with all the breakers, over 100ft of cable, electrical outlets, phone jacks, furniture, curtains, tools, etc.
They peppered oru driveway with rusty nails and screws and acted like we were the ones who wronged them when they had done well over $60k worth of damages to the place and not paid rent in YEARS. They were mad we messed up their criminal enterprise of growing, processing, & selling drugs plus having dogfights. They converted our barn to a dogfight arena and kidnapped other neighbors' dogs to use for "training" their dogs. If the neighbor hadn't been best buds with the chief of police he would have been in jail.

I remember watching one of the tv court cases where the former tenant was a plumber and was super angry about being evicted for non-payment so he poured cement down the vent pipes.
So what I learned from psychology class and also talking to a few recovered meth addicts, its the paranoia, which is a side effect of meth use. Every one of them have told me the same exact thing, "they were watching me" or "they were listening to me". Their reasoning was that they gutted everything that was not wood studs or sheetrock so they couldn't hear or see them. here is a scarier one for you, I had one recovered addict tell me they rewired all the electrical outlet and switches in the house they rented to stop them from watching and listening to them. I used to think the tenants pawned the copper wire and pipe for money, but no, that usually just gets hauled away by the homeless folks with the shopping carts. There is this kind of ecosystem within the drug infested neighborhoods. So as for the 2 am thing, drug addicts do not like light. I have been told it hurts their eyes. Drainage and sewage systems are warm and dark and the smell sensory system after prolonged use is dormant so the smell is not much of an issue for addicts. Crawl space foundations, I tore a house down once in the ghetto of Pittsburg, CA. We slid the roof off into the dumpster. We started pushing the house into the garbage dumpsters, kind of like sections of the house. All them meth heads come crawling out of the vents in the sides of the foundation.
 
So what I learned from psychology class and also talking to a few recovered meth addicts, its the paranoia, which is a side effect of meth use. Every one of them have told me the same exact thing, "they were watching me" or "they were listening to me". Their reasoning was that they gutted everything that was not wood studs or sheetrock so they couldn't hear or see them. here is a scarier one for you, I had one recovered addict tell me they rewired all the electrical outlet and switches in the house they rented to stop them from watching and listening to them. I used to think the tenants pawned the copper wire and pipe for money, but no, that usually just gets hauled away by the homeless folks with the shopping carts. There is this kind of ecosystem within the drug infested neighborhoods. So as for the 2 am thing, drug addicts do not like light. I have been told it hurts their eyes. Drainage and sewage systems are warm and dark and the smell sensory system after prolonged use is dormant so the smell is not much of an issue for addicts. Crawl space foundations, I tore a house down once in the ghetto of Pittsburg, CA. We slid the roof off into the dumpster. We started pushing the house into the garbage dumpsters, kind of like sections of the house. All them meth heads come crawling out of the vents in the sides of the foundation.
Nice pics !!!!!!
 
That pipe dumped into the ckeanout tee is temporary. So is the 4” 90 and the 2” pipe connection on the right.
 

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