I need to vent!

[gantz]

Yeeeeeaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh when I saw the Optimal Optimus I started hitting online stores...

The pain....

[kup]

No trap has been triggered as of yet by fleshling mice...

[GoktimusPrime]

Kup.... Why'd you have to post such a pic... now you got me wanting to collect Beast Wars show characters..ARGH...

You'd better not look at this then...







ain't I a stinkah

[janda the red]

hey guys...

i'm moving house this weekend and my wife and i just got back from cleaning the kitchen, bathroom, toilet and built in robes at the new place.

now is it just me...

or is it a million times worse cleaning someone else's filth as opposed to your own?

ergh.... i'm so grossed out right now

janda

[GoktimusPrime]

Why is your new place so dirty??!? (o_O)

[kup]

Why is your new place so dirty??!? (o_O)

Nowadays rental property has becomes such a premium with huge amount of demand that exceed supply. So Real Estates no longer bother to clean them before putting them out on the market since there will most likely be a huge line of dozens of people willing to pay more than what is being offered.

When I moved to my current unit, the kitchen was pretty dirty so I cleaned it all up. It was worth it since I had doubled my living space for very little more money and overall I am in a better building. Except for the stupid mouse, my place is pretty clean and tidy with lots of space with a dedicated collection room.

[GoktimusPrime]

I thought if the place was dirty then the real estate agent would pay for professional cleaners then deduct that out of the previous tenant's bond before refunding whatever was remaining.

[Golden Phoenix]

I thought if the place was dirty then the real estate agent would pay for professional cleaners then deduct that out of the previous tenant's bond before refunding whatever was remaining.

Yes that is how it works in theory.
But if they take the bond from the previous tenants and leave it a mess then they get to keep all of the bond and add that to their profit.

[kup]

Yes that is how it works in theory.
But if they take the bond from the previous tenants and leave it a mess then they get to keep all of the bond and add that to their profit.

This unfortunately seems to happen too often.

The Real Estate will always be keen to get you in order to claim your bond but there is no guarantee that they will actually use the money to make the repair/cleaning that it was supposed to have been taken for.

They can get away with it because the former tenant has no way of verifying if the money taken is actually for the claimed reason.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

That's an interesting point there Kup, Surely, as the bond has to be signed OK to use by both Tenant and Real estate agent, I would expect to see some receipts for the money they use.

I got an inspection letter that had the usual stuff on it and a bit stating that if the gardens weren't in a stisfactory condition that the real estate could call in their own gardners and charge the tenant.

After reading that, I thought could the tenant dispute the costs, as they are paying for it and did not apporve it. Mosts leases state that if a maintenace call is made and it is not really broken (eg idiot can't work air-con, so assumes it broken, but was just outside plug off), the tenant will be charged for workmans fees. Should work both ways, know what I mean.