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The answer is no but I just had to post this. I have a tenant that left after 4 months of a 12 month lease and tried to tell me there was no damage just normal wear and tear items "like the master bedroom window is cracked now and the latch to the gate came off, just normal wear and tear you know." Lucky for them the window is the original and is about 30 years old at this point which would put it at close enough to end of life for me to not charge them but how can they think a broken window is wear and tear.
Because people don't care and expect you to eat damages. Lots of people if asked see damage as wear and tear. That's why I take as much deposit as I legally can.
We had a window crack from the cold on the enclosed with windows/screens but completely not insulated and not heated
so it can actually happen no matter how much a landlord wants to always blame the renter for damages.
We had a window crack from the cold on the enclosed with windows/screens but completely not insulated and not heated
so it can actually happen no matter how much a landlord wants to always blame the renter for damages.
Sure it's possible. Then you inform the LL hey the place got cold and window cracked.
We had a window crack from the cold on the enclosed with windows/screens but completely not insulated and not heated
so it can actually happen no matter how much a landlord wants to always blame the renter for damages.
Sure it can, but I'm in Az and our overnight lows are still above 50 with highs in the 70s. Cold isn't going to break a window here for a few more months if ever considering it rarely gets cold enough to even snow and it is super pathetic snow when it does happen.
We had a few windows crack when they were blasting for the new road. A friends dd broke a few learning how to play some musical instrument.... 30 yrs ago so don't remember which.
There is a difference between reporting at the time of occurrence and not reporting at all.
I have one tenant that has gone through more window glass than all of my other rentals combined over 30 years... and she is the problem... not that she personally breaks the glass... she is the problem because she makes excuses for her kids and grandkids who do... and will often cover for them... sad, but true.
At least she keeps the local glass guy busy... it did take me two broken windows first before I caught on...
The answer is no but I just had to post this. I have a tenant that left after 4 months of a 12 month lease and tried to tell me there was no damage just normal wear and tear items "like the master bedroom window is cracked now and the latch to the gate came off, just normal wear and tear you know." Lucky for them the window is the original and is about 30 years old at this point which would put it at close enough to end of life for me to not charge them but how can they think a broken window is wear and tear.
They know it's not wear and tear they are just grasping at straws trying to get over on you.
Sure it's possible. Then you inform the LL hey the place got cold and window cracked.
How cold does it have to get to crack glass? It gets to 20 below here every winter and I have never had glass crack from the cold, not in my own house, not in my rentals, not in any of my son's rentals. not on any car window, and not in the greenhouse. It occasionally gets to 30 below and no cracked glass, so how cold does it have to get to crack glass?
The only cracked glass I've ever had was when a tenant drove a screw through a window frame and it went into the glass and cracked it.
The tenant is responsible for the condition of the house and it doesn't matter whether the tenant broke it, his kids broke it, a guest broke it, a stranger threw a rock through it, a burglar broke it, the dog jumped through it, or a bird flew into it and broke it (and that would have to be a mighty big bird to break a window). The window is broken, the tenant pays, unless a handyman sent by the landlord and paid by the landlord, accidentally hit the window and broke it.
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