bunnycat
Ideal_Rock
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Hubby and I rented out his condo when we moved in and bought a house. That was a couple of years ago. Now, the tenant has moved out and the management company did their inspection of the property and there are problems. We have neither of us been landlords before and so I need a few opinions if there's any landlords out there in PS land.
Before hubs moved out of his condo, he was very gentle on his property. He never wore shoes indoors because of the pale carpet and treated everything with care. We knew that wear and tear would be a matter of course, but some of the things I'm not so sure of. When does it tip over the edge from being normal wear and tear to "OMG, we're going to have to spend thousands to fix this!"?
The living room carpet has a HUGE 2ft wide stain on it that wasn't there before and while the carpet was certainly showing some wear and getting older when hubs rented it out, it wasn't ruined by any stretch of the imagination. The carpet in the rest of the house seems mostly ok still.
And though it seems like a small issues that hubs has kind of glossed over, there is some damage to some kitchen tiles which worries me. Like a chip out of the tile that goes down past the glazing to the terra cotta underneath. Is it even possible to repair just a couple of damaged tiles if there's tile damage, or do you have to start all over? And if it's not bad enough to start over, but probably will entail having the entire kitchen redone at some point soon, how do you decide what should come out a security deposit?
Before hubs moved out of his condo, he was very gentle on his property. He never wore shoes indoors because of the pale carpet and treated everything with care. We knew that wear and tear would be a matter of course, but some of the things I'm not so sure of. When does it tip over the edge from being normal wear and tear to "OMG, we're going to have to spend thousands to fix this!"?
The living room carpet has a HUGE 2ft wide stain on it that wasn't there before and while the carpet was certainly showing some wear and getting older when hubs rented it out, it wasn't ruined by any stretch of the imagination. The carpet in the rest of the house seems mostly ok still.
And though it seems like a small issues that hubs has kind of glossed over, there is some damage to some kitchen tiles which worries me. Like a chip out of the tile that goes down past the glazing to the terra cotta underneath. Is it even possible to repair just a couple of damaged tiles if there's tile damage, or do you have to start all over? And if it's not bad enough to start over, but probably will entail having the entire kitchen redone at some point soon, how do you decide what should come out a security deposit?