MY previous landlord wants to detuct £40 from my deposit because there was dust on the skirting boards.

[TurtleyAmazing]

I have just recieved an email from my property manager regarding my deposit for the flat we moved out of a few months ago. now i was expecting SOME deductions of my deposit as i did scuff and mark the walls a little, not a lot just everyday wear and tear sort of thing.

I can't say i was expecting her to deduct a total of £210 though!

this is the email i recieved...

vacuum all carpets £40
skirtings were dusty £40
oven and extractor fan to be cleaned £60
clean the grout in the shower £40
scuffs on walls £10
small dent to the kitchen door £20

now, i have many issues with this. i used to hoover or sweep my carpet every single day without fail. it was a horrible carpet which just collected dust and grit and i couldnt stand the feeling of walking on it barefoot without giving it a good vacuum first. the very last thing i did before walking out of the door the final time was vacuum the whole flat. so i can say with 100% certainty that this is total BS.

£40 for some dust on a skirting board is fucking disgusting! how anyone can justify that i don't know!! it doesn't need painting just simply dusting.

I have never ever used the oven extractor. i opened it when i first moved in saw the dirty grimmy muck behind it and never opened it again. as for the oven itself when we moved in the glass door was so caked in shit you couldn't see into the oven through it. i scrubbed and scrubbed that thing for hours until the glass became clear so if anything the oven is in a better state now than it was when we moved in.

grout in the shower £40 the flat had a bad mould issue, the shower cubicle was damp and mouldy when we moved in the grout was possibly a bit worse when we left so i sort of understand that deduction although that was not our fault.

scuffs and dent to the door £30 yes, i scuffed the wall and supposedly dented the door thats fine i will glady pay the money for that.

she has also sent me the inventory for the flat with pictures of all the damage we had supposedly done. we didn't recieve one at the beggining of our tenancy though so she is swearing blind that all these problems were caused by us yet they truly was there when we moved in, we just have no way of proving it.

if you have made it this far thankyou
what would you do in this situation?

Look at this flat

It takes a really shitty LL to charge £737 per month, even in London.

Yes she has never met a person who vacuums everyday therefor common sense dictates daily vacuumers don't exist

"She" didn't say that. I said that I found it implausible that someone would hoover every day and face deductions relating to dust from their deposit.

fortunately I've also never had tenants who dented a door or actually removed one and thankfully since I insist on current landlord references I can say without any shadow of doubt you are absolutely not my tenant nor ever likely to be

Anyway, how fortunate that you worked out the solution once you started this thread and whole thing has been resolved at the speed of light.

Maybe, just maybe, the ll was corrupt and making shit up Chelsy?

Oh and I doubt anyone reading this would want to be your tenant...

Brilliant Turtley :)

Really pleased for you OP!

What you going to do op? Are you going to court anyway?

Well done Turtley.

Chelsy - your sarcastic sour grapes do you no favours.

The whole thing was resolved so quickly because I called my LL on the fact my deposit wasn't protected properly. Therefor to avoid a huge payout I was offered my deposit back in full within minutes.

People tend to hurry up a bit when they know they are in the wrong and facing large costs.

"Let me tell you the reality of renting, it is my home."

damnautocorrect I feel the same as you, but unlike you I have always painted, grown things in the garden, bought curtains etc, as I need to feel like it's mine, even for a while. Over the years I have spent £££££ on other people's houses. I have improved every place I have lived.
In one place ds and I lived I had taken down the dirty and broken blinds in the living room. Before we moved out, I ordered some the exact same, which were not cheap. On moving I could not manage to put them back up on my own (the fitting were still there, was just a case of slotting them in, but needed two people).
The LL's (a couple who lived locally) charged me £100 for "a handyman" to come and hang the blinds I had replaced.
They had spent a grand total of £0 on the house in the 4 years I had lived there.
In my current home I have bought new curtains and painted the downstairs white (it was grubby magnolia)only to be handed notice to leave. We have a month to get out now, and nowhere to live. We are trying to negotiate a bit longer, as I am waiting for something to come available through the council/Housing association, and once it does (if it does) I will be the happiest bunny in the wordl that I never have to deal with landlords or agents ever again.
And, well done to you OP. I like a happy ending. Bastard might think twice next time. Well, we can but hope, eh?

Oh, and I own a very good vacuum cleaner, and I vacuum nearly every day. Just saying.