American Landlady Furious After Irish J1 Students Destroy Her Home in San Francisco

A group of Irish students who were in San Francisco on a J1 working holiday visa this year have been shamed by news stations in the city, following the landlady's discovery that the house had been wrecked. Rita Vohra rented the house to the group of students, but began to receive complaints from neighbours. She returned to the house this week for a random spotcheck, bringing news station CBS with her. Much to her horror, the sight that greeted her left her speechless. Light fixtures were left broken in the house. (Pic KPIX).  “Where do you even begin?” she asked the reporter, after opening the door to find her home had been destroyed. “They just smashed the house. Glass is broken here, broken chandeliers, how do you get it off the ceiling unless you swung from it or something?” she continued, claiming that there were also used condoms, smashed-in walls and broken bannisters. Reports have since blamed the damage on the group of Irish students. Landlady, Rita, who came to the United States originally as a working holiday student added that she rented the house to the students trying to be nice, to give them a break in the country's most expensive rental market. It is believed that a golf club was used to do a lot of the damage.  “I was doing it (renting the house) to be nice. This is mini terrorism. This is an act of terrorism on me, on my house. How drunk, angry and violent would you have to be? I have nothing personal against them, but I want to at least recover the damage they’ve done." The damage is believed to be worth tens of thousands of dollars, and it has been reported that some of the students have been in touch with the landlady offering to repay her - though this has yet to be confirmed. CBS then go on to report that the students “have all gone back to Ireland, having left their mess in San Francisco.”

The smashing of the US house by Irish students is shocking deplorable & unacceptable however not representative of our young Irish abroad. — Charlie Flanagan (@CharlieFlanagan) September 21, 2014

In response, the Irish Embassy told CBS that every effort would be made to account for the damages and the offending students could be prohibited from returning to the US in future. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dx6W0uOn38 Video via YouTube/Shanghai Kelly