My Mum rented a room in her old house to a tenant.
He was a serial tenant – by that I mean he had lodged for years and knew how to get the most out of it.
He used to borrow food and not give it back. He would charge up the batteries for his microlite (sp?) in his room (my Mum wondered why her bills shot up). When ever he was challenged about anything he got defensive and a bit rude and my Mum was put off renting our rooms ever since.
I had a go at him once when we discovered he was storing 3/4 drums of aviation fuel in the cellar and had hidden them behind some stuff under old sheets. When my Mum asking him to remove them he refused, I ended up removing them and leaving them next to his car in the street when I went up to visit…which he wasn’t very happy about.
He left when my mum was out and took the mattress from his room with him…it wasn’t his.