So a bit of background on what's happened to date:
Tenants have been constantly late on rent every month, until recently where they breached the 2 weeks or whatever they had to pay the balance. Upon inspection by agent, they discovered they had more than the allowed number of pets on the property.
Since they were in breachx2, I elected to have them evicted straight away and to my surprise they left the property promptly. Unfortunately the place is in bad shape. I have inspected the property along with the agent.
A few of the issues the agent and I have noted:
- EVERY wall, especially around corners and light switches is dirty and soiled. Looks like someone with black oiled hands went around the house and touched all the walls. Marks don't come out with sugar soap scrub, though magic eraser helps.
- All the curtains are stained and soiled, with cat pee and fur stuck on them at eye level.
- There's ketchup? and coke? dried on the door jambs, dead flies in window sills, dead cockroach in the rangehood. They set the rangehood on fire one day after falling asleep whilst frying chips. They replaced it with another rangehood, but it's a slide-out unit instead of the original under-canopy one, so the cabinet doors don't line up now and there's about a 130mm gap.
- Grout is all stained in black soot from fire (they're white subway tiles with white grout) and they've tried bleaching it to no avail. Also tried to cover up the sooty white sealant with some tan coloured sealant. No idea how they thought that was a good idea.....
- Tried to 'touch up' some parts of the wall with ceiling white I left in the shed. Used the paint brush, tray and roller in shed to dry so they had to be thrown away too.
- Snapped the clips off a fitting within the Smeg dishwasher - luckily I found it and the fitting was replaced....kinda stays in place now.
- There's dog poo in the yard and probably 100+ cigarette butts, filters, roll paper, trash, polystyrene bean bag beans etc scattered all around the yard, including a pair of boxer shorts, beer bottle.
- Purposely bent spoon - looks like it was used for cooking heroin or something
- AC filter completely gummed up in really thick blanket of dust, fan blades covered in dust
- Light bulbs missing, smoke alarms torn off their mountings and batteries missing
- Dried gum and poo on skirting boards and hardwood timber floors (thank god I don't have any carpet!) that needed to be scraped/chiselled off. Scratches on stairs and deck from dog claws.
- Place smells like wet dog and cigarettes. Urgh.
- Burn marks on vanity sink basin probably from dropping cigarettes in there
Seems like they can afford foxtel, cigarettes, alcohol, and possibly heroin (all things I don't spend money on) but couldn't afford to pay rent on time. Funny thing was, when they vacated they 'magically' paid their owing rent, probably so it wouldn't go down on record when I deducted it from their bond.
At the agent's request, I've allowed the tenants to come back with the agent to 'clean up' the place 1 week after they vacated and handed the keys back. What happens after the tenants 'clean' and it's still grotty? I take it they could still 'dispute' my claim if I wanted the cost of a professional cleaner to go through the house? Would you push to have the cost of a professional cleaner go through the property and cost deducted from the bond instead of letting the tenants back in? Do I have to let them back in, especially after they've vacated and keys left behind?
Urgh, the joys of bogan trash
Tenants have been constantly late on rent every month, until recently where they breached the 2 weeks or whatever they had to pay the balance. Upon inspection by agent, they discovered they had more than the allowed number of pets on the property.
Since they were in breachx2, I elected to have them evicted straight away and to my surprise they left the property promptly. Unfortunately the place is in bad shape. I have inspected the property along with the agent.
A few of the issues the agent and I have noted:
- EVERY wall, especially around corners and light switches is dirty and soiled. Looks like someone with black oiled hands went around the house and touched all the walls. Marks don't come out with sugar soap scrub, though magic eraser helps.
- All the curtains are stained and soiled, with cat pee and fur stuck on them at eye level.
- There's ketchup? and coke? dried on the door jambs, dead flies in window sills, dead cockroach in the rangehood. They set the rangehood on fire one day after falling asleep whilst frying chips. They replaced it with another rangehood, but it's a slide-out unit instead of the original under-canopy one, so the cabinet doors don't line up now and there's about a 130mm gap.
- Grout is all stained in black soot from fire (they're white subway tiles with white grout) and they've tried bleaching it to no avail. Also tried to cover up the sooty white sealant with some tan coloured sealant. No idea how they thought that was a good idea.....
- Tried to 'touch up' some parts of the wall with ceiling white I left in the shed. Used the paint brush, tray and roller in shed to dry so they had to be thrown away too.
- Snapped the clips off a fitting within the Smeg dishwasher - luckily I found it and the fitting was replaced....kinda stays in place now.
- There's dog poo in the yard and probably 100+ cigarette butts, filters, roll paper, trash, polystyrene bean bag beans etc scattered all around the yard, including a pair of boxer shorts, beer bottle.
- Purposely bent spoon - looks like it was used for cooking heroin or something
- AC filter completely gummed up in really thick blanket of dust, fan blades covered in dust
- Light bulbs missing, smoke alarms torn off their mountings and batteries missing
- Dried gum and poo on skirting boards and hardwood timber floors (thank god I don't have any carpet!) that needed to be scraped/chiselled off. Scratches on stairs and deck from dog claws.
- Place smells like wet dog and cigarettes. Urgh.
- Burn marks on vanity sink basin probably from dropping cigarettes in there
Seems like they can afford foxtel, cigarettes, alcohol, and possibly heroin (all things I don't spend money on) but couldn't afford to pay rent on time. Funny thing was, when they vacated they 'magically' paid their owing rent, probably so it wouldn't go down on record when I deducted it from their bond.
At the agent's request, I've allowed the tenants to come back with the agent to 'clean up' the place 1 week after they vacated and handed the keys back. What happens after the tenants 'clean' and it's still grotty? I take it they could still 'dispute' my claim if I wanted the cost of a professional cleaner to go through the house? Would you push to have the cost of a professional cleaner go through the property and cost deducted from the bond instead of letting the tenants back in? Do I have to let them back in, especially after they've vacated and keys left behind?
Urgh, the joys of bogan trash
