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Bah.
Our previous landlord wants to keep £200 of our £695 deposit from the old place for cleaning and redecorating. Rather unfair, considering it was cleaner than when we moved in on the last day. Oh well.

I would like to hear your landlord from hell stories to cheer me up.
(I helped save b3ta! Bats, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 13:40, archived)
i own my house, sorry

(I helped save b3ta! well, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 13:41, archived)
He can charge you for cleaning but not for redecorating,
unless he can prove that he needs to do it because you made holes in all the wallpaper.
(I helped save b3ta! Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Wed 3 Jun 2009, 13:41, archived)
Admittedly
there was a scratch in one of the walls from installing a bed, and there was a coffee stain on one of the office walls that wasn't there when we moved in. I can't be bothered to complain, we're getting most of it back.
(I helped save b3ta! Bats, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 13:42, archived)
He can charge for what the fuck he likes
unless you've got a detailed enough inventory to prove that you haven't scratched the woodwork or similar.
(I helped save b3ta! the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 13:43, archived)
I always make a point of trying to remember to take photos as soon as I move in and then forgetting to take photos.

(I helped save b3ta! mike woz ere 7442200 & 7696970 getter, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 13:43, archived)
This.
My mother used to work in a rental place, she used to make the students do an inventory before they moved in.
(I helped save b3ta! Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 13:43, archived)
I think I stained our bath by leaving the cillit BANG on too long.
DAMN YOU BARRY SCOTT.
(I helped save b3ta! rosie posie tingly bongly, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 13:45, archived)
Apparently it does that a lot.

(I helped save b3ta! Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 13:46, archived)
well, if you use in on plastic baths, yeah
that's why it has "NOT SUITABLE FOR CLEANING PLASTIC BATHS" written on it. Like 99% of cleaners, to be fair
(I helped save b3ta! the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 13:48, archived)
I dunno, I never used it.
Some people were moaning about it on the radio, I wasn't really listening.
(I helped save b3ta! Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 13:51, archived)
I sprayed a load on, thought i would leave it to do its thing for a while,
and then decided to read the instructions about half an hour later where it tells you not to leave it on for longer than 5 minutes. Ho hum.
(I helped save b3ta! rosie posie tingly bongly, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 13:51, archived)
Haha, oh well.

(I helped save b3ta! Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 13:52, archived)
BANG
and the bath has gone.
(I helped save b3ta! the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 13:48, archived)
We have that in our house.
I though that was standard.
(I helped save b3ta! Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Wed 3 Jun 2009, 13:46, archived)
Why do you assume it's a he?
You sexist cunt
(PsychoChomp, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 13:45, archived)
landLORD
not landLADY
(I helped save b3ta! Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Wed 3 Jun 2009, 13:46, archived)
Because otherwise it would be a landlady?

(I helped save b3ta! Bats, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 13:47, archived)
not being a landlady
probably gives it away, there.
(I helped save b3ta! the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 13:47, archived)
you're all sexist cunts
I'LL TAKE MY EQUALITY CHAMPIONING SOMEWHERE ELSE
(PsychoChomp, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 13:48, archived)
Yeah, happens everytime,
landlords are cunts.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 13:41, archived)
Not by a long stretch
Some are, granted, but mostly it's just that people damage and dirty places they live in.
(I helped save b3ta! the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 13:44, archived)
I don't have any.
All my landlords have been pretty good.
(I helped save b3ta! mike woz ere 7442200 & 7696970 getter, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 13:43, archived)
What a cunt.
It's natural wear and tear, surely. Landlords are cunts.
(I helped save b3ta! Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 13:43, archived)
well, without us seeing it
it's hard to say whether it's fair or not. Some landlords are shitty, but most are OK. It's far more likely on balance that the place really does need professional cleaning, to be honest, and that's not natural wear and tear.
(I helped save b3ta! the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 13:46, archived)
Well, yeah.
I was thinking of my own flat, to be honest. The carpet is ming, but it's beige, and was ming before we moved in. I could see her getting arsey about it, though.

If I was allowed have pets, I wouldn't mind paying for a professional clean after I moved out. I'd pay the extra deposit, too. But most won't even hear of it.
(I helped save b3ta! Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 13:48, archived)
bingo
www.b3ta.com/calendar/event/19822
(I helped save b3ta! mongychops, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 13:43, archived)
Did you not have an inventory done when you moved in?
Ours was practically a novel it was so detailed.
(I helped save b3ta! rosie posie tingly bongly, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 13:43, archived)
We did, but it wasn't that detailed.
And besides, he's been fair and taken £100 off what he was going to take off us for wear and tear, and we did damage the place just a fraction.
(I helped save b3ta! Bats, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 13:46, archived)
Mine was a little fat biker than looked like a very pierced Gimli.
When he was drunk (ever night) he would sit with his nose a few inches from the telly watching MTV whatever-it-is-that-has-a-lot-of-50cent at top volume whilst breathing heavily.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 13:44, archived)
My landlords are blithering idiots.
I could probably get away with not paying rent.
(I helped save b3ta! BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 13:48, archived)
go on, then
CCJs are a barrel of laughs
(I helped save b3ta! the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 13:50, archived)
Our last landlord looked like Quark from off of Star Trek.
Our front door broke within a few months of us moving in and despite repeatedly telling him, he did fuck all about it. It wouldn't lock unless you used the key. He kept trying to bump up the rent and we were all 'Nah, fix the front door, then we'll talk'.

He used to come round monthly to collect the rent until we told him he was infringing on our privacy. One time he brought his mum round to inspect the house without telling us and she told us to sort the garden out.

We got cats and they ruined the wallpaper. When we moved out I (accidentally) left a litter tray full of shit.
(I helped save b3ta! Blue Star was working part time at the 5 and Dime, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 13:51, archived)
Hahaha, good.
If you want to fuck up a house, get a rabbit.
(I helped save b3ta! Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 13:52, archived)
I wish we could afford to buy our own place.
I love my flat but it does feel like we're spunking all this money away every month when we could be putting it towards actually owning a place.
(I helped save b3ta! rosie posie tingly bongly, Wed 3 Jun 2009, 13:54, archived)