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Originally Posted by dalecrenshaw

As an owner of a home in the Villages, that we rent out when we are not there, for the most part, people leave the house as if it were their own home. Most people are embarassed to leave it untidy or dirty and do their best to shine it up before leaving. This has always been the case 99% of the time. Of course, some things are inadvertently missed or not a thorough as it should be , so it is necessary to have a cleaning person go in to make sure that the house is in tip top condition for the next tenant, or the next tenant will complain and feel obliged to leave it messy.

I did have a terrible experience with a property manager, who failed in her responsibility to do a walk through and failed to do an inventory after the tenant had left. This particular tenant left the place a mess....stained carpets way beyond normal wear and tear, 3 lamps that had been knocked over and broken, other things that were broken because of abuse, quite a few things missing, etc etc etc
The property manager gave back her deposit in full. When I arrived at the house from California, I was horrified to find the house a mess. Contacted the property manager and was told the tenant left the place in perfectly good condition. Obliviously, she could not have walked through or done an inventory check. Since the deposit was given back, we, as owners had no recourse to get back all the money it cost us to clean up the place and replace the missing/broken items. Needless to say, we parted company with the Property Manager, and are now managing the property ourselves.

We have had several property managers over the years, and find that most of them are too busy to do a thorough job.

been there done that manage on our own also