Learn from my mistake. I took some, but not all the photos I should have when we first moved in. When we moved in, the carpet was a bit dirty (enough that landlord send someone over clean it up again -- nonprofessional, just a handyman with an at home carpet cleaner) Fast forward 5 years later, we moved out. He just charged us half the cost of him to replace the carpet. Yes, it was dirtier than when we moved in, but it wasn't damaged. We lived there for 5 years, and it certainly wasn't new when we moved in. But I didn't take any pictures of it before we moved in nor after we moved out. Can't prove the condition it was in. (And he says he doesn't remember sending someone over)
Same with cleaning. I hired a cleaning service to do the move out cleaning. Landlord states he had to hire another cleaner because it wasn't "clean enough". I sent him the invoice and receipt that I paid a professional cleaner, but he insists it wasn't clean enough. Not sure if it's worth the hassle to fight him over everything, esp when I can't "prove" anything.
He also charged us for painting the whole place. When we moved in, I noticed he had done "spot treatment" of little patches of paint. Not a full on full coat. But he charged us for a full paint and patch up (I used some command strips that took off some of the paint, FML. So some patching needed)
Anyway, do your due diligence. Just because he seems like a reasonable and nice person, he won't always be.
Submitted October 27, 2019 at 05:23PM by mewmewmew111 https://ift.tt/2MPCpla
