Re: House move out cleaning - Landlord Forum thread 360595

Re: House move out cleaning by Garry on June 24, 2020 @21:56

It's not really fair of you as the LL, to automatically charge a T for cleaning, if they want to do it themselves, and try to get back most of their deposit. You should always give a T a chance to do any cleaning or damage repair, before they turn the keys over to you. Once you get the keys back, go thru and see how they did, and assess charges accordingly. If the place is in good shape, return most or all of their deposit. Remember, these must be good Ts, or they wouldn't want to clean the place at all.

The COVID-19 virus should not enter into your decision on cleanliness or their deposit. First, the virus does not live very long on hard or soft surfaces(carpet). And unless your carpet cleaners can GUARANTEE a no-covid carpet(which they can't) YOU cannot guarantee a no-covid place to future Ts. After they are gone and you have returned most of their deposit, THEN you can clean as much as you want, at you own expense.

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