Hi, we've just moved out of our rented house (to owning one so no issues about next tenancy/reference etc just to be clear) and not sure if landlord is being unreasonable about expectations for deductions from deposit.
We lived there for 8 years, we were expecting this would have some bearing on the expected property state, wear and tear etc, is this right? Landlord seems to be expecting property back in the condition as if we'd only been in 6 months or so.
Landlord wants carpets professionally cleaned when this is not mentioned in tenancy agreement and they are as clean as you'd normally expect, vacuumed etc, but obviously have 8 years of being used.
On 2 walls the wallpaper has damage from where furniture rubbed against it and we weren't aware until we moved and so moved the furniture. Landlord is charging to completely repaper both walls - I agree we should contribute as we're liable to 'repair' them but paying for completely new wallpaper for all of both walls when it's only 2 drops that need replacing seems excessive. Of course we understand landlord will probably want to repaper all the wall to make sure it matches but again, surely we're not responsible for 8 years of fading/ageing of the non-damaged paper so shouldn't be paying for LL to get new paper?
We'll be going through DPS anyway but wanted an idea of what would be fair to pay for/towards or not.
Also to muddy the waters our tenancy agreement refers to agreeing the inventory but unless we've forgotten something we never actually had an inventory given or signed anything so would it be unreasonable to ask the LL to prove what the property condition was when we moved in?