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Re: OMG! my townhouse is in terrible condition!! - Landlord Forum thread 352281

Re: OMG! my townhouse is in terrible condition!! by Garry on May 21, 2017 @16:26

                              
Please treat this as a learning experience for you, no different than paying to go to college for a year. You have just learned what many of us long-term landlords have known for years-----never try to show a place until it's vacant, clean, and no damages to it. I'm sorry to hear of your mother's passing, and problems with your job. But this is your other "job"----your business of being a LL. Yes, your Ts are very poor house keepers, but part of the blame goes on you for not doing at least 1 inspection 30-40 days prior to the end of the lease. For now, just forget about the showing of the place, and the cleaning of it. You need possession back, ASAP. You need to get a hold of, and follow , your state's LL/T laws regarding termination of your lease. Get a lawyer if need be, but get possession back. THEN worry about cleaning and repairing damages in your townhouse. Once you get possession back, take pics of everything, just as you find things as you walk in for the first time. Take a witness with you, also. Then start cleanup and repair procedures, and change locks. Any costs involved to do all that, can be charged against their deposit. Just be sure to get the security deposit settlement statement out within the 30 day time frame. If you wish, in a separate letter to your tenants, about 2 weeks before they are to be out, you can tell them what you want cleaned, and how to clean it. Then all you can do is wait for them to be out when you told them to, and hope they have left your place in better shape than when you first saw it.
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