Hi,
My PM had let me know of some rental breaches over start of summer and then suggested we ask them to leave at end of lease. They have done a runner owing about $1800 in rent plus now apparently the carpets are beyond use, house needs complete repaint plus a few repairs to furniture etc. See letter below?
"Obviously though now the mess has gone we can now see the damages and unfortunately there is quite a lot more then I would have liked.
This includes a lot of marks and dents and knocks in the walls, every wall, carpets are beyond use and need replacing, vanity units need repairing, light blulbs need replacing, screens need replacing, dog tracks and holes need filling.
So today I have sent out quotes for the following.
2x quotes for a whole house repaint, I have asked them to please split the quote into patching and painting as we won?t be able to hold the tenant for %100 of the costs but I do feel with the amount of patches to be done it really needs a full repaint. We need to speak about your insurance and if you have it as now would be a good time to start looking into claiming.
2x quotes for all the maintenance work.
2x quotes to rekey the property
2x quotes to replace the carpets ? they were cleaned but they are just not good, they need to be replaced. Again we can?t hold the tenant to %100 of the cost, can you please tell me when the property was built so I can work out how old the carpets are.
I would like your permission to take the property down from advertising until we get this work done. I just don?t feel we should be tenanting it right now as its going to be to hard having prospective tenants through as well as having painting and carpets ect done to it. "
Surely my PM should have seen this coming over the course of 12months since the last good tenant left? Do I need to give her a big serve or what or is this fair wear and tear? House is from 2003, I bought in 2010 and the carpets were fine (that's a few years I know).
I'm kinda lost and would like to know where I sit
thanks
Jeff
My PM had let me know of some rental breaches over start of summer and then suggested we ask them to leave at end of lease. They have done a runner owing about $1800 in rent plus now apparently the carpets are beyond use, house needs complete repaint plus a few repairs to furniture etc. See letter below?
"Obviously though now the mess has gone we can now see the damages and unfortunately there is quite a lot more then I would have liked.
This includes a lot of marks and dents and knocks in the walls, every wall, carpets are beyond use and need replacing, vanity units need repairing, light blulbs need replacing, screens need replacing, dog tracks and holes need filling.
So today I have sent out quotes for the following.
2x quotes for a whole house repaint, I have asked them to please split the quote into patching and painting as we won?t be able to hold the tenant for %100 of the costs but I do feel with the amount of patches to be done it really needs a full repaint. We need to speak about your insurance and if you have it as now would be a good time to start looking into claiming.
2x quotes for all the maintenance work.
2x quotes to rekey the property
2x quotes to replace the carpets ? they were cleaned but they are just not good, they need to be replaced. Again we can?t hold the tenant to %100 of the cost, can you please tell me when the property was built so I can work out how old the carpets are.
I would like your permission to take the property down from advertising until we get this work done. I just don?t feel we should be tenanting it right now as its going to be to hard having prospective tenants through as well as having painting and carpets ect done to it. "
Surely my PM should have seen this coming over the course of 12months since the last good tenant left? Do I need to give her a big serve or what or is this fair wear and tear? House is from 2003, I bought in 2010 and the carpets were fine (that's a few years I know).
I'm kinda lost and would like to know where I sit
thanks
Jeff