Re: Damages after vacating - no rental agreement

Re: Damages after vacating - no rental agreement by Anonymous on April 25, 2016 @21:07

I must apologize to all after re-reading my original post. I discovered the carpet being removed about 5 weeks before she vacated- NOT on the day of. I'm working about 12 hours a day, 7 days a week right now and it was obviously too late at night for me to be posting :)

Anyway, I am hoping to sell the property and had given her notice that I would be doing a walk-through with my realtor. When we arrived, the carpet and padding were outside and she said to both of us that she took it out because it smelled. I remembered later that in the beginning month of her living there and I was in the house when she was at work, she would leave her dog locked in that room, so I just don't know what to think - did it still smell from the previous tenants, even though it was professionally cleaned before she moved in? I just don't know. Unfortunately, she was so eager to move in that I didn't get pictures of that room and the carpet after it was cleaned.

We did do a walk-thru, but it wasn't planned (I was driving by the house and she was there unexpectedly and had her coworker with her). Awkward to say the least. We walked through the house and chatted and she gave me the keys, but we didn't discuss any issues that I saw.

This home is my only property other than my main residence and has been rented mainly to people who needed a "hand up", so to speak. So, this renter is my first experience with deposits/walk-thru's etc. I can see I've made some mistakes.

At any rate, I may just have to chalk this one up, and continue working on selling the place and getting out of the LL business. ;)

Thank you all for your professional opinions, advice and links to CA information. It's much appreciated :)

Billie

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Re: Damages after vacating - no rental agreement by Anonymous on April 26, 2016 @20:58	[ Reply ]

Hand up usually means a hand out..........treat it as a business to reduce your losses.

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