Leaving a rented property-what more can I do?!?!?

emsywoo123

Bungarm2001 wrote: »

Scrub around the bath, sink and washbasin taps with an old toothbrush and a bit of liquid cleaner. Ditto the shower head and fittings. If you have a shower curtain, give it a wash if it's wasable, or just replace with a new one if it's really beyond salvaging.

Make sure the plugholes are clear and clean too...these areas are always missed and sadly, it's the kind of thing I notice. Nowt much worse that having to dig out other peoples hair...food in kitchen drains..yyuukk....Give the grout in between tiles a good scrub too..in fact, do what I do in between tenants. I scrub the bathroom from floor to ceiling, then I do it all over again.

Don't take it the wrong way me posting all this, but from a LL point of view, I would rather see a glittering kitchen and bathroom than newly painted walls. It takes longer to clean...!!

Thank you, that is an interesting point you make at the end there, I have been so bothered about my walls I am worried I will miss other bits!

lynzpower

emsywoo123 wrote: »

Luckily for me, the property was unfurnished, so no need to worry about washing machines etc, but thank you for those that have mentioned it.
Oooo and no mould in the bathroom hurrah!

I am guessing I will have to get a window cleaner, any idea how much for a 2 bed mid terrace?

Additionally, can net curtains go in a washing machine ha ha I know nothing

You havent wastehed the net curtains in 2.5 years? :eek:

Yes. You want to get hold of some glowhite, or similar OS alternative. its about a pound and makes your curtains gleam

Smashing

jmt wrote: »

Hi,


My letting agent (find tenant only) told me that they charge £5 per light bulb and £60-£75 to have

£5 for a sodding lightbulb? :eek:

Bungarm2001

Smashing wrote: »

£5 for a sodding lightbulb? :eek:

Smashing...LA's live in a weird twilight zone where nothing resembles normality and life as we know it (Jim) and where they can make it all up as they go along...

tbs624

Captain_Mainwaring wrote: »

"does this mean inside and out?"

Do you just wash the inside of your underpants?

And one wonders why deposits don't get returned.

CM - you need to keep up to date : an OFT bulletin described the requirement for a tenant to clean the outside of the windows as an unfair contract term.

That was only 5 years ago...................

tbs624

Bungarm2001 wrote: »

Smashing...LA's live in a weird twilight zone where nothing resembles normality and life as we know it (Jim) and where they can make it all up as they go along...

I agree with you on the LA twilight land but it could be one of those LEL jobs that the LL popped in just to shove up his EPC rating and...:eek: shock horror... the naughty tenant has replaced it with a non-environmentally friendly pound shop job. Who'd have thought it ...........;)

tbs624

lynzpower wrote: »

You havent wastehed the net curtains in 2.5 years? :eek:

Yes. You want to get hold of some glowhite, or similar OS alternative. its about a pound and makes your curtains gleam

Lynz stop ..please..it'll be stardrops:j next.........and be fair, Emsy has been environmentally friendly by not running her washer or she could just have hated the LLs nets and shoved them unused in a suitcase for 2 years.

jmt

Hi #34 & 35,

Yes £5 for each light bulb and when I told them that I had only charged £2.99 for the two that were blown and my time for cleaning at £5.52 an hour they said I was mad.

My letting agents appear to be a national company but are in fact all franchised, but they do get good tenants and I have never had a non-payer and the longest any of my properties have been vacant is 9 days.

So I may be mad - but I'll stick with them.

lynzpower

tbs- what sort of moneysaver are you energy efficient bulbs are free all over the place ( check freebies board, b gas were giving them away incidentally for free recently) and they were 59p in morrisons bogof fairly reently too :beer:

All good moneysaving

tbs624

Yep - had the freebies and the bogof, but other specific bulbs do still come in at a hefty whack ..I think it may have been Sooz who was highlighting this recently too on one of the "doncha just love the methodology of the EPC" threads. The point was centering around the fact that an EPC takes into account whether LELs are fitted but they can of course (a) be removed by the LL after the EPC has been done or (b) be replaced with standard ones by the tenant ...sorry, I digress into anti-EPC territory..

As I'm sure most people can deduce I am vehemently anti those LAs who overcharge tenants at every opportunity and that includes costs such as a fiver per replacement lightbulb. Outside regulation is, however, likely to be just around the corner and they only have themselves to blame.:D