AshleyD asked:
So our old landlord sent us the itemized bill within like a day of it being 30 days… she is wanting to charge us our whole deposit plus $300 to cover normal wear. We did leave the place “broom swept” condition, however no we did not go the extra mile to have the carpets cleaned or the oven cleaned (however everything was maintained while we lived there.) Charging us for things like a garage man door that wouldn’t lock (which was used by the other rental people connected to us…it was a shared door.) Charging us for the carpets being cleaned ( $250!) Air duct cleaning…(Isn’t that normal wear?) Nail holes!! There were nail holes when we moved in..yes we added some, but how can she charge us for nail holes when there is no way she can tell if they are from us or not… and we stated when we moved in on the inventory list that there were nail holes. Does all of this sound right? Can she actually charge us for all of this? In our lease it states that if the place is not left in the same “clean” order as it was upon move in then $175 would be deducted from the deposit…which would be fine, but she has gone way over and beyond.
Also we are supposed to pay her the water/sewer, she has never in the past gave us a “real bill” only a slip of paper stating how much we owed… and then we always paid it. Back when we gave our 30 days, she mentioned (in e-mail) that she would be sending us the bill soon…we never received one nor did she ever send one. I am wondering since it has been 30 days since we left and we never received a letter or a bill stating what we owed…do we still have to pay it? Or being that the 30 days is up, is it just forgotten? It’s odd that she has not said anything about it, she didn’t even add it in our deductions from our deposit.
So our old landlord sent us the itemized bill within like a day of it being 30 days… she is wanting to charge us our whole deposit plus $300 to cover normal wear. We did leave the place “broom swept” condition, however no we did not go the extra mile to have the carpets cleaned or the oven cleaned (however everything was maintained while we lived there.) Charging us for things like a garage man door that wouldn’t lock (which was used by the other rental people connected to us…it was a shared door.) Charging us for the carpets being cleaned ( $250!) Air duct cleaning…(Isn’t that normal wear?) Nail holes!! There were nail holes when we moved in..yes we added some, but how can she charge us for nail holes when there is no way she can tell if they are from us or not… and we stated when we moved in on the inventory list that there were nail holes. Does all of this sound right? Can she actually charge us for all of this? In our lease it states that if the place is not left in the same “clean” order as it was upon move in then $175 would be deducted from the deposit…which would be fine, but she has gone way over and beyond.
Also we are supposed to pay her the water/sewer, she has never in the past gave us a “real bill” only a slip of paper stating how much we owed… and then we always paid it. Back when we gave our 30 days, she mentioned (in e-mail) that she would be sending us the bill soon…we never received one nor did she ever send one. I am wondering since it has been 30 days since we left and we never received a letter or a bill stating what we owed…do we still have to pay it? Or being that the 30 days is up, is it just forgotten? It’s odd that she has not said anything about it, she didn’t even add it in our deductions from our deposit.
Sorry a lot of questions…but we just don’t know! This is for the state of Michigan.
Like I said, in the lease it is stated there is a $175 cleaning fee for after move out… cleaning fee to me would include the carpets. I am a serious clean freak, so everything was maintained the entire time of living there … so any “dirt” was very little. No I did not go through and run the self cleaning oven for one little spot in it… these things that she charged us for should not have come to the sum of $1,200!!
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