Revolting photographs have been released showing the shocking state that a Cork apartment was left in after a 'tenant from hell' vacated it after two years.
A property manager has told how a dead dog was found inside a binbag in a wardrobe, while rubbish was piled "up to the ceiling".
Newly released photos show rubbish strewn across floors and surfaces, as well as fly catcher almost black as it had never been replaced.
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A property manager has told of the disgusting find some months after the woman left the apartment, saying the "smell would knock you".
It comes as the property had only just been refurbished before the woman moved in with her two-year-old daughter.
A man who was managing the property today revealed how it cost them a further €8,000 to fix it all, Cork Beo reports.
The disturbing story was told to Patricia Messinger on C103's Cork Today, with manager Seamus outlining how they had only redecorated the apartment prior to her moving in too.
Seamus, who acts on behalf of a property management company, said that pets weren't allowed in the flat, but that she bought one anyway then left it to starve to death while on a three-week holiday.
He told C103: "Less than two years ago we had this property refurbished and redecorated and everything was put into it brand new.
"This lady came through the council on this HAP scheme, she had a two-year-old little girl with her.
"For the two years she was inside of it, strictly there was no dogs. No pets of any description.
"But halfway through her tenancy she decided to pick up a dog, a pitbull, a fairly big dog."
Seamus said he was informed of the dog on "several occasions" and had asked her to remove it but he was told she "had to have it" and that he had no authority.
"In turn she went away on holidays for about three weeks and left the dog in the apartment. Then the dog, of course being starved, started to eat the furniture. Ate the doors, door frames, the furniture, beds, destroyed the carpets. This apartment cost €8,000 to put back renting again.
"In the meantime the dog died of starvation inside the apartment. She then came back and put the dog into a black bin liner and put it into a wardrobe in the bedroom where it remained for about three months unbeknown to us because we had no authority to enter the property until she vacated it."
He said she "had to be" living in the apartment with her child while the dog was in the wardrobe.
"She did abscond about a month before we got access to the apartment."
He only realised she was gone after a woman who worked from the council had come in relation to another apartment, and while there he asked if he could go in as the curtains had been pulled closed for a long time.
The council worker went to check it with them and Seamus said once they opened the door there was a fierce smell.
"It would knock you" he said.
"About six weeks previous there was a lot of rubbish outside the apartment, which they're obliged to sign up to get removed."
He said he asked the tenant about it one day and told her to get rid of it, and claimed she told him she had a skip ordered for it all.
But when he got into the unit with the council worker he found the bags "up to the ceiling" in one of the rooms.
"They were in one end of the apartment and in the other was a dead dog inside of a bag.
"At this stage she had gone."
When he queried the council he said he was told that unfortunately agreements are with the tenant and the landlord. Seamus said the council were involved in the deal and feels they should be helping with the repair costs.
"We had to throw out the cooker, the washing machine, the fridge. There was food left inside the fridge and we couldn't open the door of it. We had to get a skip as it would've been unfair to any new tenants moving in had there been any issue with any appliances."
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