Hi pot, this is kettle calling...
So, we gave back the keys to the old room to our old landlady. And, big shock, upon our moving out, she was unhappy with how we left things, even though we wiped down the walls with cleaner, vacuumed the floor, and cleaned the bathroom prior to giving her back the keys- normal, run of the mill cleaning that normal, average people do.
We gave her a $400 deposit on the room when we first moved in, and somehow repainting the walls and shampooing the carpet supposedly cost $380. She claimed the carpet had been shampooed three times and was still not clean; we looked in the room and it didn't look like it had been shampooed at all. Which begs the question: what kind of complete incompetents are you using to shampoo your carpet? Because honestly, shoe dirt and the detritus of normal every day living don't make a carpet that bad, even if you have an alarming lack of common sense about putting white carpet into a room that you intend to rent to people. It's not like we were having food fights in there, or bled on the floor; it was just normal wear and tear.
While we were scrubbing down the walls, Ninja Boyfriend asked me if we wanted to pay someone to come in and shampoo it, and I was like "no, we gave her a deposit, that's what it was for..." and now I'm doubly glad I decided not to have someone come in, because she would have still taken our whole deposit no matter who we called in to have the place cleaned! All the while, as she was talking about how the room wasn't clean, she kept pausing after her statements, like she expected us to jump in and offer more money to clean. Um, no, we gave you a deposit. If you can't hire people who can get the job done, that isn't our problem. If you wanted more money, you should have insisted on it before we moved in, not hinted around about it after the fact. Ugh.
I cleaned the bathroom too, scrubbed the sink and wiped the toilet down and swiffered the floor and everything, and she was still trying to claim that it was filthy. Like, no matter what we did, we were filthy nasty people who lived like pigs. Funny thing was, as Ninja Boyfriend pointed out... as we sat in her living room, we noticed that her area rug was dirty, there was dust on the floor, and dust bunnies under the furniture. So, pot and kettle much?
We gave her a $400 deposit on the room when we first moved in, and somehow repainting the walls and shampooing the carpet supposedly cost $380. She claimed the carpet had been shampooed three times and was still not clean; we looked in the room and it didn't look like it had been shampooed at all. Which begs the question: what kind of complete incompetents are you using to shampoo your carpet? Because honestly, shoe dirt and the detritus of normal every day living don't make a carpet that bad, even if you have an alarming lack of common sense about putting white carpet into a room that you intend to rent to people. It's not like we were having food fights in there, or bled on the floor; it was just normal wear and tear.
While we were scrubbing down the walls, Ninja Boyfriend asked me if we wanted to pay someone to come in and shampoo it, and I was like "no, we gave her a deposit, that's what it was for..." and now I'm doubly glad I decided not to have someone come in, because she would have still taken our whole deposit no matter who we called in to have the place cleaned! All the while, as she was talking about how the room wasn't clean, she kept pausing after her statements, like she expected us to jump in and offer more money to clean. Um, no, we gave you a deposit. If you can't hire people who can get the job done, that isn't our problem. If you wanted more money, you should have insisted on it before we moved in, not hinted around about it after the fact. Ugh.
I cleaned the bathroom too, scrubbed the sink and wiped the toilet down and swiffered the floor and everything, and she was still trying to claim that it was filthy. Like, no matter what we did, we were filthy nasty people who lived like pigs. Funny thing was, as Ninja Boyfriend pointed out... as we sat in her living room, we noticed that her area rug was dirty, there was dust on the floor, and dust bunnies under the furniture. So, pot and kettle much?