Professional Carpet Cleaning - Tenancy Agreement

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Perelandra wrote: »

Having said that, when I moved out of my last two rented properties which did have clauses on cleaning the carpets, I did comply with them (even though I probably didn't need to). Both landlords had been very good. Had they been bad landlords, I might have felt differently.

Both had been very good? They let you live there for free?

Renting is a business transaction and should be viewed as such. Why would you do more then you were legally obliged to?

ollyver27

Perelandra wrote: »

This document:

http://www.oft.gov.uk/shared_oft/reports/unfair_contract_terms/oft356.pdf

Makes for interesting reading. This particular wording:

We therefore commonly object to terms that could be used to make the tenant pay for the property to be cleaned to a higher standard than it was in at the start of the tenancy, or that require cleaning regardless of whether or not this is necessary for the tenant to comply with their normal obligations with regard to the state of the property

on page 50 would apply- they "commonly object to terms... that require cleaning regardless of whether or not this is necessary".

Having said that, when I moved out of my last two rented properties which did have clauses on cleaning the carpets, I did comply with them (even though I probably didn't need to). Both landlords had been very good. Had they been bad landlords, I might have felt differently.

Thank you for hunting this down for me. I think all-in-all it is in my favour, so I will see what happens...