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My Argument…
Posted on July 20th, 2008 by darnonymous.
Categories: Uncategorized.
I finally got around to saving the ‘apartment condition report’ photos to my computer, & seeing them just pissed me off all over again! Here is what I am talking about;
Just 1 of the many photos of the mould level in the bathroom.
The kitchen covered in food splatters.
The oven. Lov-er-ly!
The windowsills.
Seriously, should it be my responsibility to have to clean THAT when I move into a place??!! I had just assumed like EVERY OTHER PLACE I’ve ever lived in that it would be cleaned BEFORE we moved in!
I swear they must not have ever even been to the place! On the condition report they had ticked ‘clean’ & ‘undamaged’ to everything. Um, what about these;
Yeah I’d call these walls ’clean’ & ‘undamaged’ too!
It’s only a tiny stain, nobody’ll even notice it!
What iron burn? That’s just the pattern of the carpet!
When I took a whole wad of photos to the agent, they were like ‘yeah, we know what the place is like, we don’t need photos for you to prove it’. Them knowing what it’s like doesn’t mean shit! What happens if we stay there for a couple of years & they leave? When the next agent comes along to inspect it & says ‘there was no mention of any marks or damage to the place on the condition report when you moved in, technically ALL the damage in the place is YOUR responsibility’! The whole bloody point of having the condition report is that it’s all there in writing!
Anyway, I was bloody good when I went to see them on Friday, I definitely walked out with the upper hand. I was one of those super-cool-calm-collected-can-talk-her-way-out-of-a-parking-ticket-chicks, you would not have messed with me on Friday! It also helped that I had totally lost my voice from the tonsillitis, I think it is hard to get angry with someone when they are so softly spoken & never raise their voice or get at all angry. HAHAHA! Little do they know what I might have been like on any normal day!
So today I am waiting by the phone to hear back from them! Hope you all have a great day!
3 comments.
Oh Dar, good thing you got photos - agents are so dodgy like that. I doubt they even look through the place when they do that inspection.
It was exactly the same with my place when we moved in - I was just lucky that I got good owners who actually came and cleaned the place before we moved in.
Question is - I wonder if the previous tennants got their bond back? If not, I wonder what they did with the money? Obviously not hire cleaners to come in and clean the place!
Yeah, the reason I was so anal about it this time is that I have been caught out on exactly the same thing before. When I moved into an apartment the carpets were stained & hadn’t been cleaned. I organised a carpet cleaner & the agent reimbursed me. Then when I moved a year later the agent was such a BIATCH! She was so anal & pointed out all these marks on the carpet & said that when I moved in the carpet had been spotless! I argued & said that was crap & reminded her about the carpet cleaner, but hadn’t thought to keep the reciept or never thought I’d need photos or anything. So she pulled out a photo of the carpet that was spotless & said that was the condition when I moved in. The photo must have been from when they first started looking after the property, seriously it must have been from years earlier! So I have well & truly learnt over the years to take photo eveidence of EVERYTHING & get the agent to sign off on it!
I can’t imagine your place being in bad condition, it looks so new & in good condition. While we were looking we were seriously debating moving down your way to get something more decent like the place you guys have! Oh, well, they only let you sign 6 month leases these days anyway so they can put the rent up! We can always move again in 6 months if need be.
Apparently no money was withheld from the previous tenants bond which is why it has been such an issue trying to get money back from the agent, it would come from their business. But as I said to them, THAT IS NOT MY PROBLEM! It was their responsibility to sort that out before we even signed a lease.
It wouldn’t be life if it wasn’t full of drama would it?!!!
But how are you guys & Toby anyway?
God! Daria that is DISCUSTING!!! Are the real estate agents retarded??!!! Thats so gross, the people that lived there previously were PIGS!!!
I’ve got my fingers crossed for you for your agents reply today!!
Xx Jess