It’s that time of year. Finals are over, the party’s winding down and it’s time to pack up and go home. Some students, though, might be traipsing back with their tail between their legs, though, as one lettings agent has released images of just how skanky some students are keeping their houses.
Rooms full of phone books, empty cereal packets, Styrofoam containers and up-turned sinks, living rooms where doors are used as tables and mantlepieces and the floors littered with cigarette stubs and used balloons from nights in playing with laughing gas (we’re guessing; these lot don’t seem like the sorts to host a jelly and ice cream and balloons-style party) as well as microwaves and fridges crusted over with the various remnants of tomato-based dinners... it’s fair to say there’s a LOT of mucky students out there.
‘Some of the states properties have been left in is unbelievable,’ Nigel Loughtman, MD of Manchester rental company Tiger Property, told the Manchester Evening News. ‘We try and talk to tenants and make sure they understand about returning the property in the state they found it to get their full deposit back but it doesn’t always happen.’
Luckily, the sorts to leave behind such filth are in the minority: ‘I’d say only one per cent of our student tenants get none of their deposit back at all and around 10 per cent get all of their deposit back.’
Broken beds, we totally understand – you haven’t really done uni right until you’ve broken a bed, whether it be through sex, or some vigorous dancing/jumping on it after a night out – but this sort of mess, well, you do wonder how on earth some people survived finals with that sort of place to call home.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.