How do I address this with my landlord?

[Anonymous]

Sorry I messed it up.

Here we go again:

This house was built in 1985 and renovated in 2008. The LL bought it in 1988 for 200K. The houses around us are worth 400k on average. Honestly I expected more from them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you walked in to a filthy place that was worn down, why would you rent it? That's what I don't get. Why wouldn't you point out what you felt was wrong upon first walking in and get input from the landlord right then and there? I don't get renting a crap hole and then bitching that you've 'rented a crap hole', but now expect a palace. What's wrong with people? Yeah, maybe the landlord is an a-hole or whatever, but you knew that from the get-go when you saw how bad a shape the unit was in. So, you're not such an A-plus-er yourself. And for you to have kids. Hope you use better common sense with life's other important decisions.

There were people living here. It was not trashed. There was normal mess of people living here like dirty dishes being loaded in the dish washer. A pile of laundry by te machine while they ran another load, etc. I never said it was trashed. I just expected they would clean the place before giving it to us.

The marks on the walls are from kids hands with greae/food, furniture scuff marks, nail holes and nails left behind etc. regular stuff nothin outrageous but I honestly thought these things would be addressed before us moving in.

[Anonymous]

We had this experience in another house. Took 4 days of scrubbing the kitchen ABOVE the upper cabinets because all the cooking grease had settled here. The previous owners had essentially used it as a test kitchen for their indian restaurant. And I like indian food, but was a freaking nightmare. They were hard pressed for money it seems so they didn't spring for a real cleaning (and they were too lazy to do it themselves, evidently).

Re: paint, I don't think you can expect painting will occur unless it's discussed. Sorry, but that's my experience.

I'd bring up the pod and the washer and ask where you can put the furniture you won't be using - trash, previous tenants, does the owner want it? Because you don't.

Then over the course of 6 weeks I'd do a deep clean and paint a few rooms. After that, you'll feel much better. In fact, if you can afford it, I'd probably just suck it up and pay someone $300 to come deep clean the hell out of it myself and get right to painting. But if you can't afford that, you can clean it yourself. It sucks, but such is life.

[Anonymous]

"We just moved in and during the walk through I had with a representative of the real state company managing the property I pointed out te things I saw like damage to the molding, stains and nail holes on the walls, stains on the carpet and mold on the glass of the front loading washing machine.

The previous family cooked ethnic food so the smell is all over the house. So strong I got nauseated when we first entered the house."

The house was filthy during your walk through was was so god-awful you were nauseated upon first entering, no? Why would you rent? Doesn't make an iota of sense. If I walked in to restaurant and saw roaches crawling all over upon sitting down, I wouldn't proceed to order a meal and if I was foolish enough to, I wouldn't be shocked to find a roach or two in my meal. I certainly wouldn't think, "well, I thought the manager would abate the roaches before giving me my meal". Sounds really dumb. It was goofy for you to think a crap hole would be transformed just because your highness moved in. You should have noted the filth, mess, disrepair, whatever and gotten in writing that it was be taken care of. See what happens when you assume? Now you're bitchin' in DCUM. You coulda just not moved in to the shit hole. Seems like a better choice, but we're not all geniuses are we?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Brand new landlord here, and our house is also being managed. We just bought the house from previous owners of 30+ years. Here's what we did (paid someone to do):

Redid hardwood floors upstairs
Had 80% of the house repainted
Had deck powerwashed and we repainted it
Installed new attic insulation (though would've been just fine as-is)
Removed remnants of asbestos-containing mastic in corner of basement, sealed it and repainted it
Had house professionally cleaned, and since at the end of it I wasn't pleased with it, went in and redid some spots myself.

So, long story short, no, I don't think you're being picky. And my house is in a desirable close-in area, so yeah, there was demand. I just didn't take advantage of it. I didn't care for how previous owners left the house, I thought it reflected really poorly on them and on the life they must've led there, and was not going to have new tenants move in ready to enjoy our house with grease stains all around the kitchen vent. Seriously.

Okay, troll! You're caught. Go back to your bridge. No way your a new landlord!

Why would I be a troll?? We're not all straight out of Dickens...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"We just moved in and during the walk through I had with a representative of the real state company managing the property I pointed out te things I saw like damage to the molding, stains and nail holes on the walls, stains on the carpet and mold on the glass of the front loading washing machine.

The previous family cooked ethnic food so the smell is all over the house. So strong I got nauseated when we first entered the house."

The house was filthy during your walk through was was so god-awful you were nauseated upon first entering, no? Why would you rent? Doesn't make an iota of sense. If I walked in to restaurant and saw roaches crawling all over upon sitting down, I wouldn't proceed to order a meal and if I was foolish enough to, I wouldn't be shocked to find a roach or two in my meal. I certainly wouldn't think, "well, I thought the manager would abate the roaches before giving me my meal". Sounds really dumb. It was goofy for you to think a crap hole would be transformed just because your highness moved in. You should have noted the filth, mess, disrepair, whatever and gotten in writing that it was be taken care of. See what happens when you assume? Now you're bitchin' in DCUM. You coulda just not moved in to the shit hole. Seems like a better choice, but we're not all geniuses are we?

This is just gratuitous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"We just moved in and during the walk through I had with a representative of the real state company managing the property I pointed out te things I saw like damage to the molding, stains and nail holes on the walls, stains on the carpet and mold on the glass of the front loading washing machine.

The previous family cooked ethnic food so the smell is all over the house. So strong I got nauseated when we first entered the house."

The house was filthy during your walk through was was so god-awful you were nauseated upon first entering, no? Why would you rent? Doesn't make an iota of sense. If I walked in to restaurant and saw roaches crawling all over upon sitting down, I wouldn't proceed to order a meal and if I was foolish enough to, I wouldn't be shocked to find a roach or two in my meal. I certainly wouldn't think, "well, I thought the manager would abate the roaches before giving me my meal". Sounds really dumb. It was goofy for you to think a crap hole would be transformed just because your highness moved in. You should have noted the filth, mess, disrepair, whatever and gotten in writing that it was be taken care of. See what happens when you assume? Now you're bitchin' in DCUM. You coulda just not moved in to the shit hole. Seems like a better choice, but we're not all geniuses are we?

And you're clearly not one.

I said the nausea was because of the food smell.

The place was not filthy it was just regular dirty from people living there.

I expected the place to be clean and it was not. You should take a reading comprehension course or something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Brand new landlord here, and our house is also being managed. We just bought the house from previous owners of 30+ years. Here's what we did (paid someone to do):

Redid hardwood floors upstairs
Had 80% of the house repainted
Had deck powerwashed and we repainted it
Installed new attic insulation (though would've been just fine as-is)
Removed remnants of asbestos-containing mastic in corner of basement, sealed it and repainted it
Had house professionally cleaned, and since at the end of it I wasn't pleased with it, went in and redid some spots myself.

So, long story short, no, I don't think you're being picky. And my house is in a desirable close-in area, so yeah, there was demand. I just didn't take advantage of it. I didn't care for how previous owners left the house, I thought it reflected really poorly on them and on the life they must've led there, and was not going to have new tenants move in ready to enjoy our house with grease stains all around the kitchen vent. Seriously.

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but you did all this prior to renting it correct? You didn't have a tenant who had already signed a lease- then you decided to do do all these things. You did them to improve the value you could get on the rental market

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I'm speechless. We just went to put our trash in the trash cans and they're full. There's trash all around them and I can't actually get to them. The latches of the back doors are broken as is the latch to access the backyard from the outside.

This is unbelievable. In 10 years as a renter I never once had a dime deducted from my deposits. Based on all your input I'm writing an email to the agent right now.

This house was built in 1990 and renovated in 2008. The LL bought it in 1988 for 200K. The houses around us are worth 400k on average. Honestly I expected more from them.

Thank you so much.

OP, I too am speechless.
As a tenant AND a landlord -- I cannot believed you moved into this house when you saw its condition on move-in day.
I have had tenants threaten not to move in because the carpet was not cleaned on move-in day...
I gave them a concession for the cost of carpet cleaning.
Why would you move in if the condition was this bad??
WHY?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"We just moved in and during the walk through I had with a representative of the real state company managing the property I pointed out te things I saw like damage to the molding, stains and nail holes on the walls, stains on the carpet and mold on the glass of the front loading washing machine.

The previous family cooked ethnic food so the smell is all over the house. So strong I got nauseated when we first entered the house."

The house was filthy during your walk through was was so god-awful you were nauseated upon first entering, no? Why would you rent? Doesn't make an iota of sense. If I walked in to restaurant and saw roaches crawling all over upon sitting down, I wouldn't proceed to order a meal and if I was foolish enough to, I wouldn't be shocked to find a roach or two in my meal. I certainly wouldn't think, "well, I thought the manager would abate the roaches before giving me my meal". Sounds really dumb. It was goofy for you to think a crap hole would be transformed just because your highness moved in. You should have noted the filth, mess, disrepair, whatever and gotten in writing that it was be taken care of. See what happens when you assume? Now you're bitchin' in DCUM. You coulda just not moved in to the shit hole. Seems like a better choice, but we're not all geniuses are we?

And you're clearly not one.

I said the nausea was because of the food smell.

The place was not filthy it was just regular dirty from people living there.

I expected the place to be clean and it was not. You should take a reading comprehension course or something.

Your dumbass moved in to the place. Some people take "dumb as rocks" to a whole new level. I'll go take reading comprehension from the comfort of my very nice, clean and safe home. You can't say the same!

[Anonymous]

You should not have signed a lease or moved in until you saw the house in more-in-ready condition. Curtains and rods are not standard. I don't think you are being too picky but I would have never moved in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I'm speechless. We just went to put our trash in the trash cans and they're full. There's trash all around them and I can't actually get to them. The latches of the back doors are broken as is the latch to access the backyard from the outside.

This is unbelievable. In 10 years as a renter I never once had a dime deducted from my deposits. Based on all your input I'm writing an email to the agent right now.

This house was built in 1990 and renovated in 2008. The LL bought it in 1988 for 200K. The houses around us are worth 400k on average. Honestly I expected more from them.

Thank you so much.

OP, I too am speechless.
As a tenant AND a landlord -- I cannot believed you moved into this house when you saw its condition on move-in day.
I have had tenants threaten not to move in because the carpet was not cleaned on move-in day...
I gave them a concession for the cost of carpet cleaning.
Why would you move in if the condition was this bad??
WHY?

Don't question OP. She's liable to blow a gasket or something. She's already so stupid, she rented a crap hole when she knew it was a crap hole. I think she'd just about jump off a cliff to have someone throw her stupidity in her face calling her out with "why" questions. You might also need reading comprehension once she gets a hold of you. Odd, yes. Very odd to have such a low intelligence person to suggest someone take reading comprehension. OP, should actually take her own advice and start with basic common sense.

[Anonymous]

You're not too picky. I never would have moved in, or lasted more than 2 minutes when looking at it.

[Anonymous]

You're not too picky, but you're not too bright, either. Whatever issues you were having with your kids in your hotel were probably less significant than the hassles you're going to have as a result of your decision to take possession of this home in its current state. Another week of waiting would've been a better bargaining chip, but you are where you are now.

Contact your local housing authority and get a copy of the code. If you find things in your home that are in violation, get a code enforcement officer to come out and do a walkthrough. Point out your concerns. They'll probably tell you that most of your "problems" are preferences, and there's not going to be much you can do about that now. Find what you can make demands about and start from there. If the house is in violation, code enforcement will set deadlines for your landlord; you won't need to deal with that. The rest will require negotiation. Be prepared to do a lot of the cleaning and such yourself, though you may be able to negotiate for reduced rent or lease amendments (such as being allowed to leave the walls whatever color you paint).

[Anonymous]

You are not being picky. Document everything broken/leaking/problems and send a letter to the landlord/management co requesting all the problems to be fixed. It's standard for the stuff you missed in a walk through to be presented/give notification of other defects within something like 5 days of moving in. Do it now.