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Originally Posted by big guy
We "inherited" a tenant when we bought our house. They had paid $500 damage deposit but no cleaning fee. They paid their rent on time and asked to rent it again next year, They departed and I went over with 2 other people to clean. They hadn't cleaned anything for the 3 months they were there. It took 3 of us 6 hours to clean the place. I would like to write them a check for $400, keeping out $100 for cleaning, and return the $400 to them in hopes they get the message that they aren't wanted for Jan, Feb, and March 2015. My husband doesn't want me to do that because he thinks that it's the norm rather than the exception. Is this so?
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Some years ago I was looking for a rental for a friend of mine, the wife is immaculate and was not too keen on coming to Florida for the whole winter, so I knew I had to be extra careful in finding a rental.
I found one in the paper, called the guy who owned it who lived in the UK and rented the house out for just six months a year. He told me where to find the key, to call the present renters and to go see it. The house was in a really nice area of Glenview CC. When I walked into the house I could not believe what I was seeing. The tenants were having a Village home built and had been there six months, it was beyond filthy. They were literally hoarders. You could not see an empty table top or work space, even the end tables were covered with Publix shopping bags. They had chips and snack thingees all over the furniture, empty soda bottles on the floor. Then the "piece de resistance" was the carpet - it had been off white, it was now so discolored where they tracked from the front door to the rest of the house that it was literally grey, somehow or other the carpet had stretched and lay in folds, because they had tripped on the stretched carpet they had layed heavy duty plastic lengths (which are usually used to keep the carpet clean) over the stretching, so the folds were firmly entrenched in the rug. And, to top it off, the renters were so nice, a happy, jolly laughing couple!!! happily living in their own filth.
So, had to contact the owner and break the news to him. He was shocked, but also told me nine people had been to view it and had never got back to him so he was beginning to wonder if he had a problem. This poor man had to come over to supervise the restoration of the home. What a dreadful rental experience for him. I never contacted him again, so I don't know the outcome.
So, yes, some renters are filthy and some are just great! If you rent on a long term basis is it possible to have it checked, or is this illegal?