Tenant wants garbage bins cleaned!

SnooksNJ

Annie1960 wrote: »

I am not anti LL, I've just been very surprised (not in a good way) since reading this forum to see the sort of thing tenants have to put up with. Dangerous electrics, no gas safety certificates, fences falling down that LL does not bother repairing, damp, LLs using a key to walk into the property without notice (sometimes into bedrooms when someone is in bed) ... need I go on?

I understand there are some bad tenants too, but expecting the property and bins to be clean on check-in is reasonable, in my view.

Obviously you have different standards, and would be satisfied if you moved into a property with dirty bins.

I've seen some tenant horror stories on here as well and I think not paying rent for months and have to go through the court system to evict people is a lot worse than a dirty wheelie bin.

Ronaldo_Mconaldo

We pay £2.50 a month to have our big green (general rubbish) bin cleaned and that gets us two cleans a month, I think. He comes round on binman day and even puts the bin back from the side of the road for me. But he doesn't put the garden waste on away at the same time which is a bit annoying.

Anyway, forget £30. Just use a jet wash and a big brush, throw some chemicals in the and that's it.

rach_k

I would just go round and do it for them. Obviously when they leave, you will expect them to be left in the same condition.

While it may be a pain and seem unreasonable to you (I don't often clean my own bins but I would if something particularly yucky had been left in there), you can take it as a good sign that the tenant has high standards when it comes to cleaning

Strapped

Bag of soda crystals, couple of quid. If the previous tenants left them yukky, I'd go round and clean them myself tbh.