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The move-out inspection is not the final word. The landlord can still find things that need repairs when he has more time to look, and an inspection when there are still furniture and boxes in the place is worthless because all sorts of damage can be covered up. tenants can do additional damage after the inspection. The tenant is still liable for all of that.
Cleaning the stove involves lifting the lid and cleaning under that, cleaning the burner pans, pulling out the bottom drawer and cleaning both that and under it. Just running the self-cleaning oven is not enough.
Paying to have a house cleaned is very expensive. It costs me about $350 to have professionals come in and clean a house, and after they are done, I have to go in and finish cleaning it myself, because they don't do a good enough job. So if there is cleaning coming out of a deposit, it is going to be costly.
If you have good photos when you moved in, copies of correspondence, and good photos when you moved out, you can fight it. Unfortunately, being so far away, I think you are probably just out of luck. I hope you are being charged for actual cleaning, but it is possible that the bill has been padded. Still, are you going to go back to fight it? I am disgusted by landlords who cheat on deposits, but I charge actual documented costs and it adds up really fast.
Well, it should get interesting at least -- they got back to me again and said they're sending me a "move out inspection video" showing that I left things in the dishwasher, the refrigerator, and the cabinets. I am 100% confident that we did not do this. I'm wondering if the property manager sent someone else to inspect and they looked at the wrong apartment or something.
We even had a family member who still lives near there go through the house the day after we left, since we left in a hurry, to make sure we didn't forget anything. He agrees that there were no dishes/etc in there, period.
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