Garden not cleaned up to standard by tenant.

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My tenants have just vacated the house and house is in a decent condition but the garden is not quite there. The hedges are trimmed and grass in mowed but there is a patch moss in some are of the garden. Can I claim for getting that cleaned from them?

unforeseen

For a few patches of moss? You're having a laugh.
Unless you stipulated the exact condition the garden was to be left in E.G. grass trimmed to 15mm, hedge depth not to exceed 75cm, less than 0.1% of lawn to have moss,  then the answer would be NO.
Garden not quite there?

If nothing else it would give the TDS a chuckle before throwing the claim out. 

kazwookie

sapnavh said:

My tenants have just vacated the house and house is in a decent condition but the garden is not quite there. The hedges are trimmed and grass in mowed but there is a patch moss in some are of the garden. Can I claim for getting that cleaned from them?

You are joking

Moss is not caused by the tenants

Get some autumn lawn feed and spread it.

My new property now has moss as well,  I best get on to the vendor and get them to come and sort it

greatcrested

You can try. It seems a bit petty and extreme.

Do you have a detailed description + photos of the condition of the garden from when the tenancy started?

caprikid1

To be honest that sounds pretty good, agents I have had in the past have suggested I should not expect fanatical gardeners. I think you are being unrealistic, was this a house you previously lived in ?

Crumble2018

Dear lord, are you for real?  This is why I thank my lucky stars I no longer rent, even if I am broke every month with paying a mortgage!!

tacpot12

I think it would be churlish to charge them for removing a patch of moss. If they have trimmed the hedges and mowed the grass, they have maintained the garden adequately. Very few tenants maintain gardens in my experience, so I think you have been very lucky and should reward your tenants for doing some garden maintenance by letting them off the cost to clearing the moss.  The incoming tenants are not going to care about the moss, so you can't say that the outgoing tenants haven't returned the property in a lettable state. 

tacpot12

I watched an episode of "Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords" a couple of days ago where the tenants had moved out and taken the wooden flooring, skirting boards, kitchen worktops, even the lawn turf with them!  What had been a perfectly adequate lawn was now just a patch off bare earth! 

camden_kid

I'd be more worried about that body under the patio.

Hasbeen

sapnavh said:

My tenants have just vacated the house and house is in a decent condition but the garden is not quite there. The hedges are trimmed and grass in mowed but there is a patch moss in some are of the garden. Can I claim for getting that cleaned from them?

Why did you allow moss to grow in your tenants garden? Are you not responsible for maintenance? LOL
They trimmed and mowed, is there a clause in the tenancy agreement about moss growing?

cymruchris

sapnavh said:

My tenants have just vacated the house and house is in a decent condition but the garden is not quite there. The hedges are trimmed and grass in mowed but there is a patch moss in some are of the garden. Can I claim for getting that cleaned from them?

So they've left the house just as you wanted it - and have made some effort in giving the garden a once over, so that the trees are trimmed and the grass is cut? Then no - I can't see you claiming for moss. Did you mention in your contract that all moss had to be removed? Maybe you can include that in your next contract.