I know exactly what you mean! DH and I have had some bad luck with rentals and have had to move 3 times in 2 years, and every time the real estate picks up on something, no matter how thoroughly we've cleaned (and I am a real neat freak).
You spend so much time cleaning, and stressing about if it's clean enough, then the real estate comes back wanting you to do (or redo) something. One time we were asked to remove a cobweb from the outside of a window that I'm sure had been made after we'd cleaned! Sometimes I think they just come back with these little things to prove that they've looked through the place.
We are about to move again (into our own house this time, thank goodness), and I am dreading the cleaning (and re-cleaning) we'll have to do.
dont even get me started!!!!!
our ex r/e decided it'd be fun to give us our bond back and THEN about 6 weeks later send us a bill for flea bombing the house.
Apparently the new tenants found flea's in the carpet and they were attatched to animal hair. now this is all well and good BUT we didnt have any animals inside the house and it wasnt a part of our agreement that we had to have to the house flea treated when we left.
So i wrote them a nice big long letter explaining to them that a) you've already givin our bond back, therefore u have been through the house and it was passable
b) the house had been untenanted for 4 weeks(i had kept an eye on how long it took because the house is on the same street as DD's kindy) in the heat of summer and if they'd kindly take the time to look in the roof they'd see the rat baits we'd put up there to help with the mouse problem, we found mouse poo when we moved our fridge and washing machine and had been hearing them in the roof too!! was a very drawn out process but they gave up in the end.
Feel ya hun, they arent nice, hopefully it wont take much to bring it up to their standard!
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