Okay, so as many of you know, FH is just moving in to a new apartment. We were told that a whole bunch of stuff would be repaired, the carpet would be cleaned, etc, before we moved in. My cousin (the last tenant) scrubbed the entire apartment when he left and left it spotless. We get there on saturday the carpets are DISGUSTING, there's dirt EVERYWHERE..and...ok, and this has to be the grossest part, there's someone else's clothes in OUR washing machine (and it is ours, my cousin bought it when he lived there and left it for US, not the apartment). EWWWW. We have NO idea who was in the apartment using the washer. We asked the upstairs nighbors, the landlord, everyone..it's SO bizairre. And there are those arm covers for the couch in there too. Who could come to our aparmtnet and washa pair of pants, swim trunks, and the arm covers from a couch? UGh...
And the landlord barely fixed anything. We have to pay $100 to get the carpet fixed and almost $200 to get it steamed. And we already had the truck rented for this weekend, thinking the placewould be clean, so we have all of our stuff and furniture shoved in closests and the laundry room so the people can come clean the carpets tomorrow..at our expense. The bathroom lighting fixture is hanging off the wall, half of the outlet plate covers and light switches are MISSING (and the landlord said 'you'll have to buy a new one')...and the place is FILTHY. I am SOOOO discouraged. So tomorrow the carpets are being cleaned, firdya they're being repaired, friday night we have to clean this dump because saturday the cable guy is coming and so is the couch. I'm SO pissed. We were told it would be clean and the carpet would be cleaned and repaired. And I had no idea that the contractors would rip the light switches out of the wall and not replace them....UGH...
At least he had the place painted.
*sigh*
I just have to keep imagining how nice it will be once it's all clean and set up.
marymoon
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I don't want him to gt fined. I don't need problems. i just want the carpets cleaned and to have privacy and security.
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Just take a deep breath, change locks and enjoy your new apartment.
I would just casually mention to him that someone used the machine
marymoon
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We did he said 'throw it out' Fh is going to call him today to ask if we can install cabinet knobs and replace the bathroom lighting fixture, I'm going to have him mention the laundry again and tell him we're concerned about who does and does not have access to the apartment.
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Personally I would look for another apt. If this is how you are starting out with your landlord, I would hate to see how he is when you leave.
He has aldready not done anything he said he would, there is someone using your apt. applicances and you have to put in the light fixtures. Sorry, but I would not spend my $$ on his apt. You will never see this money again. JMO. Good luck with whatever you decide to do.
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yeah. the only thing is that the rent is pretty low and my cousin did the same thing, he put in all of the appliances and carpeting and all kinds of improvements paid for them himself, so the apartment really is nice, and it was worth the investment because he was living there for so long. If we lived in another apartment, we wouldn't have all of these appliances that only my cousin used (or so I thought....) and we wouldn't have a washer dryer at all and a private entrance, etc, etc. I think I just need to get over this hurdle.
ETA: I also meant to say that the $$ we're spending to fix this place up is $$ that would go to rent elsewhere. And we inheritied a fairly new AC, fridge, washer/dryer and some furniture that my cuz left for us, so it'll hopefully be worth it once we're settled in
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If the rent is pretty low, I can understand the landlord dragging his heels as far as making everything really clean. It is a pain in the a** to have to do things yourself but you also don't want to get on your landlord's bad side. I'm sure that you can change the lock but just give the landlord a copy of the key. Did you and your FI go over the apartment with the landlord before you moved in and specified things that you wanted to have done or did he say that the apartment is 'as is.' If you gave the landlord the bills or took it off of your rent I think he would be pissed and might find someone else to move in. When my FI and I moved into our apartment the rugs had stains all over them and other such and I was pissed that I had to have them cleaned, but we too were getting the place for lower than market value. Good Luck and I hope you don't have any more problems.
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you should not be moving into a place you find dirty. even though the rent is low, when you FIRST move in, he should have it cleaned etc. thats ridiculous! expecially the carpets. youd be surprised when steaming them how much dirt comes out of them! I would make a note of what it looks like so when you eventually move out, you dont get stuck with paying.. did you leave a security?
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I'm going to ask about changing the regular lock and not the expensive multilock thing. I'm sue he'll let us do it. it's a matter of a doorknob and it'll cost him nothing. We did leave a security deposit. I'm going to save these cleaning bills to make sure we get it back.
And we WERE told that the carpets would be cleaned and the rug fixed, specifically. Oh well.
