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Tenant leaving - hasnt left the house clean
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I think after 6 years you need to spend some money on nice new carpets and a total paint job.
Have a video inventory company come round just before you next rent the property.
The costs of the refurbishment can be offset against the rental profit.
A nice clean newly painted property with new carpets should comand a slightly higher rent0 -
It depends what you mean by not clean?
If it's disgustingly filthy and smells then I'd be angry, but if it's generally clean and tidy then I would say that's okay. Everyone's standards of clean are different.
I would agree with others after 6 years I would say it needs repainting and carpets renewing anyway, so I would get decorators in and get some nice new carpets down. You'll rent it really quickly and could probably get more rentCurrent Mortgage 01.10.17 £113,513.88
MFW Start Mortgage: £114,794.64
Current MED: 2036:eek: Target MED: 2026
Overpayment Target for remainder of 2017: £2,000
Mortgage overpayment savings: £684.80
MFW No 124 :money:0 -
Further discussion on this thread became irrelevant when the OP realised that the general consensus is that they should be redecorating, rather than giving the place a wipe down and Hoover before putting a new tenant in.0
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deannatrois wrote: »Its a good idea to take dated pre-tenancy and post tenancy photos too.
Yes, an estate agency tried to charge me for marking the walls in a flat (which I didn't do). They had to back down in the end as they didn't have photographs of the areas in question prior to me moving in.0 -
You've had 6 years of rent paid with no voids and you're worried about spending a couple of hundred quid (tax deductible) on cleaning? Are you David Cameron?
David Cameron paid about £75k in tax last year, a total tax rate of about 38% of his £200k income. How much do you think he should pay? 50%? 60%?0 -
David Cameron paid about £75k in tax last year, a total tax rate of about 38% of his £200k income. How much do you think he should pay? 50%? 60%?
I very much doubt his "income" is just £200k. There is no way he and his family could maintain that lifestyle on net pay of "just" £10k per month. He has other sources of income...most probably a very generous expenses policy which pays for his "second" home in full.:footie:
Regular savers earn 6% interest (HSBC, First Direct, M&S) Loans cost 2.9% per year (Nationwide) = FREE money. 0 -
Landlords take the biscuit. Pay a cleaner you greedy pig. It is no wonder everyone hates the buy to let bandits.0
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