Do tenants really like it to live like pigs and than move out and say they cleaned it... (apartments, leases)
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You are so right...time for a reality check for this tenant. His fiancee was on the lease as well and has a job and he will have one sooner or later. I guess he was fired due to having a suspended license and having to drive everyday as part of his job...
I emailed them 30 days prior of moving out with a check list what to do to obtain their security deposit back in full. I also had it by certified mail since it was also official notice that their lease was expiring at the end of the month.
15 days before moving out I sent a friendly reminder to let me know if he was going to do touch up's for the paint or that he wanted me to get my painter prepared to do it and he asked me how much would be deducted since I had been in the house with the new tenant and we both noticed (and he admitted that it wasn't wear and tear but his kids being kids and drawing on the walls with colors...)
I have sent one more email to ask if he needed any help and if he run into issues do to him moving, he just needed to let me know and we could help out...he stated everything was going fine and thanked me...
Now he is emailing me all the time to see how much deposit he can get back...I haven't told him yet how much but so far I'm $ 1200 over what his deposit was....
I already have a collecting agency so I can just add his judgment when I get it and I'm very confident to get the judgment, since he in an email admitted not having cleaned and breaking stuff. he also asked me not to use official companies so the prices for the repairs would be lower....
I guess he expected you to do it gratis....lol
That is what my kids got when they gave notice, a check list from the rental agency and truth be told people shouldn't even need this check list..( but some do) as I stated earlier if you have good housekeeping skills the move out clean up would not be a major thing.
I just had a tenant moving out..., the way he left the place
It could have been worse though...
This guy lost his job and claimed he doesn't have much funding right now, and that is his excuse for not having cleaned the house in the year he lived there....now he is complaing that cleaning that is done by a professional company is too expensive since only the appliance needed to be cleaned....
How and if they ever looked in the mirrors is a question for me, because we couldn't see our self's in it...the same for the sinks, bath tub, shower, etc...too dirty to touch.
The stove was twice for 4 hours on self cleaning and it didn't help one bit.
Many window screens were broken (strange...they are on the outside and the windows never have been cleaned...probably because they tried to safe money by having the windows open on a daily base and their little child who they can't control, went through the screen and even the frames were bended)....the bridge between the glass and screen were gone (to make the glass look like 4 smaller squares)
The carpet had s many stains, probably dye and candy, food, that never had been cleaned and one stain looked like some one actedlike a dog and did it on the carpet....now the tenant said we could just cut that stain out and replace that part with the carpet that is left in the garage...
He started to paint the house from the inside since nothing was "normal wear and tear" (kids coloring on the walls) , but felt it was too much and quit...so the doors all need to be painted since he let his kids use it as a drawing board...
We also knew that the cops were called several times due to domestic disturbance and maybe that had something to do with the patched up holes in the walls that were patched but not textured...
The entire carpet was loose and according to the pro's, they probably had wiring put under the carpet so their child could get to it, but it cause the carpet to be completely loose....
This is just a few thigs, and this guy really thinks he get's his security deposit back... So far I'm $ 1,000.- above what his security deposit was and luckily he paid last month's rent, after I told him I would go to court to get it, and then he paid...5 days late....
Do tenants (not the good ones) really think that Landlord's like to keep their security deposit? I rather had given him back the whole amount and not having to arrange all these companies to come out and fix stuff and go to 5 stores to see if I can items ordered....
I had one that cost me $4000.00...
New carpet that I had put in right before they moved in looked like it was 20 years old after only 4 years...and that was just the beginning...
I have yet to have one that just the deposit alone covers their damage..
People like that make it so hard for renters period. Unfortantly even people who own their homes live like that. I clean professionally for a living and have been in some of the grossest places. how people live like that is beyond me...but I know it happens all the time. Heck if I rented places out I wouldn't rent to my own sister since she is just disgusting in her housekeeping habits.
. I clean professionally for a living and have been in some of the grossest places
agreed. i worked as a fire damage tech, we would clean peoples houses after soot/fire damage... and i mean obviously the fire leaves soot/blackness behind, but just the general amount of junk/garbage that a lot of people have in their houses... we also did water damages.... and some houses.... so much stuff you literally walk sideways down paths into the center of each room and thats all the farther you could get... then when you start cleaning you find dead mice and bugs underneath the furniture and stuff. just disgusting
Do tenants (not the good ones) really think that Landlord's like to keep their security deposit?
Of course tenants don't think that, and most don't do that. If the majority of tenants acted like that, then no one would be in the landlording business.
The occasional bad tenant is no different than an unpleasant customer in a store or restaurant, or a client who doesn't pay their invoice for the professional services you rendered. Bad customers are part of business. There's no predicting when they will strike, you can never be fully prepared, and dealing with them is always an inconvenience. That's business.
Do tenants really like it to live like pigs and than move out and say they cleaned it...
I never met a tenant that didn't "leave the place better than they found it"
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, the way he left the place 
