AN Ayr landlord says it will take weeks to clean up rubbish and faeces strewn around a property he owns in the town.

David Griffiths shared a video to social media showing the condition of the town ceentre property - which, according to him, was left in the shocking condition after a tenant moved out.

Mr Griffiths' video has attracted almost 100,000 views since it was shared on Twitter.

In the footage, faeces can be seen lying around the property's floors, while piles of rubbish and broken furniture are visible in several rooms. 

David told the Advertiser that the mess could take weeks to clean up and could cost hundreds if not thousands of pounds to put right.

He said: "I've not tried to clean it up yet, as I'm not sure if it's safe.

"I'm concerned about the environmental health issues as there is what looks like dog faeces on the living room carpet, cat faeces in the kitchen and a a used sanitory towel.

"It's as if they took bags of rubbish and deliberately tipped them on the carpet.

"It certainly doesn’t look safe.

"It will take weeks to clean up and new carpets certainly, there's a sledgehammer leaning against the wall, there's destroyed furtniture, it's as if these tenants want to spite me because of universal credit payment problems.

"It will take hundreds if not thousands of repairs. Tenant said they were willing to sue us for posting the video, the sense of entitlement is so strong they think its me victimising them."

Mr Griffiths laid the blame for landlord and rental problems at the feet of Scottish Green MSP Ross Greer.

He did so after Mr Greer was criticised by the UK's trade body for estate agents in a social media row over rental properties.

Last week Mr Greer, shared a newspaper article about landlords being forced to sell up due to high mortgage rates and reduced tax relief on Twitter.

He accompanied it with a “tiny violin” emoji, sparking an angry reaction from property owners.

Responding to cricitism from property agents' membership body Propertymark, Mr Greer told the Advertiser's sister title, The Herald: “Housing is a fundamental human right.

"Hoarding properties for profit isn’t contributing anything useful to society and these scare stories about homes coming off the market simply don’t add up."

In a comment accompanying his video, Mr Griffiths said: "Hi @Ross_Greer. I'm a private landlord. Tenants moved out of my flat yesterday and left it looking like this. As private landlords don't contribute anything useful to society, I won't bother to clean it up. It's in Ayr. What time can you be here? You'll need gloves and a mask."

Mr Greer has not replied on Twitter to Mr Griffiths' comments.