So I was up painting until 2:30 AM in the apartment we're moving into on Wednesday, not even close to done. ******* previous tenant took the light fixture out of one of the bedrooms, so now I have to install a light fixture. I'm allergic to the dog hair that's stuck in the carpet of the bedrooms, but I can't steam clean them until the paint is dry, and I still need to do a second coat of paint...
So all of the work needs to be done by Wednesday, which is moving day (night really, I have to work), and also happens to be Halloween. So I don't get to sleep for the next 2 days, and I have to take the kids out trick-or-treating and move in the same night.
Somehow I don't think I thought this one through.
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Yodabunny wrote:
Yodabunny wrote:
So I was up painting until 2:30 AM in the apartment we're moving into on Wednesday, not even close to done. ******* previous tenant took the light fixture out of one of the bedrooms, so now I have to install a light fixture. I'm allergic to the dog hair that's stuck in the carpet of the bedrooms, but I can't steam clean them until the paint is dry, and I still need to do a second coat of paint...
So all of the work needs to be done by Wednesday, which is moving day (night really, I have to work), and also happens to be Halloween. So I don't get to sleep for the next 2 days, and I have to take the kids out trick-or-treating and move in the same night.
Somehow I don't think I thought this one through.
So all of the work needs to be done by Wednesday, which is moving day (night really, I have to work), and also happens to be Halloween. So I don't get to sleep for the next 2 days, and I have to take the kids out trick-or-treating and move in the same night.
Somehow I don't think I thought this one through.
I'm trying to understand why you're painting, steam cleaning the carpet, and changing the light fixture of an apartment. Shouldn't the landlord be responsible for that?
Edited, Oct 29th 2007 10:46am by Belkira
Belkira the Tulip wrote:
Yodabunny wrote:
So I was up painting until 2:30 AM in the apartment we're moving into on Wednesday, not even close to done. ******* previous tenant took the light fixture out of one of the bedrooms, so now I have to install a light fixture. I'm allergic to the dog hair that's stuck in the carpet of the bedrooms, but I can't steam clean them until the paint is dry, and I still need to do a second coat of paint...
So all of the work needs to be done by Wednesday, which is moving day (night really, I have to work), and also happens to be Halloween. So I don't get to sleep for the next 2 days, and I have to take the kids out trick-or-treating and move in the same night.
Somehow I don't think I thought this one through.
So all of the work needs to be done by Wednesday, which is moving day (night really, I have to work), and also happens to be Halloween. So I don't get to sleep for the next 2 days, and I have to take the kids out trick-or-treating and move in the same night.
Somehow I don't think I thought this one through.
I'm trying to understand why you're painting, steam cleaning the carpet, and changing the light fixture of an apartment. Shouldn't the landlord be responsible for that?
Edited, Oct 29th 2007 10:46am by Belkira
If you were a landlord and could make your idiot tenant do that stuff, wouldn't you?
Landlords are responsible for painting walls and cleaning/replacing carpeting and fixing any broken fixtures in a rental property.
Mindel wrote:
If you were a landlord and could make your idiot tenant do that stuff, wouldn't you?
No. But my conscience is probably one of the reasons I could never be a
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His Excellency Soracloud wrote:
Landlords are responsible for painting walls and cleaning/replacing carpeting and fixing any broken fixtures in a rental property.
That was what I thought. But then I remembered that Yoda lived in the magical land of Canada and things might be different.
Edited, Oct 29th 2007 10:52am by Belkira
Belkira the Tulip wrote:
Mindel wrote:
If you were a landlord and could make your idiot tenant do that stuff, wouldn't you?
No. But my conscience is probably one of the reasons I could never be a
Edited, Oct 29th 2007 11:53am by Mindel
Actually I got him to drop the rent because I'm not making him do all of that stuff. I'm getting the place $50/month cheaper than it should be. Also, this way I get to pick the colours and the light fixture.
It's a nice place, hardwood floors, 3 bedrooms (YEAH!!!! I GET NOOKIE AGAIN!!!!), new fridge, one flight of stairs from my old place. $950/month all inclusive.
It's a nice place, hardwood floors, 3 bedrooms (YEAH!!!! I GET NOOKIE AGAIN!!!!), new fridge, one flight of stairs from my old place. $950/month all inclusive.
Belkira the Tulip wrote:
I'm trying to understand why you're painting, steam cleaning the carpet, and changing the light fixture of an apartment. Shouldn't the landlord be responsible for that?
The person leaving the apartment is responsible to paint and clean and if they don't do it, the landlord keeps part of the damage deposit and does it themselves.
Donate. One day it could be your family.
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo
Yodabunny wrote:
Actually I got him to drop the rent because I'm not making him do all of that stuff. I'm getting the place $50/month cheaper than it should be. Also, this way I get to pick the colours and the light fixture.
It's a nice place, hardwood floors, 3 bedrooms (YEAH!!!! I GET NOOKIE AGAIN!!!!), new fridge, one flight of stairs from my old place. $950/month all inclusive.
It's a nice place, hardwood floors, 3 bedrooms (YEAH!!!! I GET NOOKIE AGAIN!!!!), new fridge, one flight of stairs from my old place. $950/month all inclusive.
That work sounds like it's worth more than $600, but that's just me I guess.
Yodabunny wrote:
Actually I got him to drop the rent because I'm not making him do all of that stuff. I'm getting the place $50/month cheaper than it should be. Also, this way I get to pick the colours and the light fixture.
It's a nice place, hardwood floors, 3 bedrooms (YEAH!!!! I GET NOOKIE AGAIN!!!!), new fridge, one flight of stairs from my old place. $950/month all inclusive.
It's a nice place, hardwood floors, 3 bedrooms (YEAH!!!! I GET NOOKIE AGAIN!!!!), new fridge, one flight of stairs from my old place. $950/month all inclusive.
Please tell me that you got the landlord's approval of the colours and light fixture you picked out.
Uglysasquatch, Mercenary Major wrote:
Belkira the Tulip wrote:
I'm trying to understand why you're painting, steam cleaning the carpet, and changing the light fixture of an apartment. Shouldn't the landlord be responsible for that?
The person leaving the apartment is responsible to paint and clean and if they don't do it, the landlord keeps part of the damage deposit and does it themselves.
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So I was up painting until 2:30 AM in the apartment we're moving into on Wednesday
First line of the thread, numbnuts.
$950 all utilities included!?
Edited, Oct 29th 2007 11:56am by Soracloud
Edited, Oct 29th 2007 11:56am by Soracloud
Uglysasquatch, Mercenary Major wrote:
Belkira the Tulip wrote:
I'm trying to understand why you're painting, steam cleaning the carpet, and changing the light fixture of an apartment. Shouldn't the landlord be responsible for that?
The person leaving the apartment is responsible to paint and clean and if they don't do it, the landlord keeps part of the damage deposit and does it themselves.
Right, but ultimately it's the landlord, not the new tenant.
And $50 off the rent a month seems a little low for all the work you have to put into it. How soon with that pay off with the replacing of the light fixture, cost of paint, and all that stuff?
Holy crap - I'd hate moving if the landlord was making me do that crap too.
Every location I've ever been in, it's me with the bargaining chip. I have the money, I'm going to be giving them money month after month, and for the most part I'll do most of the maintaining and even do improvements to the value of the place while I'm there, so I hold the bargaining chip and if the place is 80% move-in-able, but there are a few things that the landlord could do to make it worth my while to choose him and not some other dude, then he'd better pony up. Otherwise, he can go look for some other tenant who is more likely to trash the place than my tenancy would have in the same place.
Gotta spend money to make mone.
Sucks that you're having to go through that crap before even being able to move in.
Every location I've ever been in, it's me with the bargaining chip. I have the money, I'm going to be giving them money month after month, and for the most part I'll do most of the maintaining and even do improvements to the value of the place while I'm there, so I hold the bargaining chip and if the place is 80% move-in-able, but there are a few things that the landlord could do to make it worth my while to choose him and not some other dude, then he'd better pony up. Otherwise, he can go look for some other tenant who is more likely to trash the place than my tenancy would have in the same place.
Gotta spend money to make mone.
Sucks that you're having to go through that crap before even being able to move in.
Grandfather Barkingturtle wrote:
First line of the thread, numbnuts.
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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo
Thumbelyna Quick Hands wrote:
Please tell me that you got the landlord's approval of the colours and light fixture you picked out.
Nope, not going to either.
Belkira the Tulip wrote:
And $50 off the rent a month seems a little low for all the work you have to put into it. How soon with that pay off with the replacing of the light fixture, cost of paint, and all that stuff?
He'll be paying me for the paint, I'm just putting the work in. I want certain colours, I want certain hardware on my cupboards etc. So if I get the stuff and do it I don't have to live with crappy eggshell cheapo white walls. I could make him do it, but then it wouldn't be done to my standards.
Yodabunny wrote:
Belkira the Tulip wrote:
And $50 off the rent a month seems a little low for all the work you have to put into it. How soon with that pay off with the replacing of the light fixture, cost of paint, and all that stuff?
He'll be paying me for the paint, I'm just putting the work in. I want certain colours, I want certain hardware on my cupboards etc. So if I get the stuff and do it I don't have to live with crappy eggshell cheapo white walls. I could make him do it, but then it wouldn't be done to my standards.
Yodabunny wrote:
Belkira the Tulip wrote:
And $50 off the rent a month seems a little low for all the work you have to put into it. How soon with that pay off with the replacing of the light fixture, cost of paint, and all that stuff?
He'll be paying me for the paint, I'm just putting the work in. I want certain colours, I want certain hardware on my cupboards etc. So if I get the stuff and do it I don't have to live with crappy eggshell cheapo white walls. I could make him do it, but then it wouldn't be done to my standards.
Well that's not too bad then.
Congrats on your new place.
Belkira the Tulip wrote:
Right, but ultimately it's the landlord, not the new tenant.
Agreed, I was just letting you know its the same thing up here, which makes my nuts numb. BizaarroAmerica is only so bazaar.
Donate. One day it could be your family.
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo
Yodabunny wrote:
Belkira the Tulip wrote:
And $50 off the rent a month seems a little low for all the work you have to put into it. How soon with that pay off with the replacing of the light fixture, cost of paint, and all that stuff?
He'll be paying me for the paint, I'm just putting the work in. I want certain colours, I want certain hardware on my cupboards etc. So if I get the stuff and do it I don't have to live with crappy eggshell cheapo white walls. I could make him do it, but then it wouldn't be done to my standards.
I missed that tidbit of information $50 off monthly rent - that is actually quite a deal considering it would have cost the guy very little in supplies, and they typically have people who are hired and hourly specifically for doing the painting and carpet cleaning. You'll basically "make up" the amount that it would have cost him in 4 months, and then it's a gravy matter of $50 not leaving your pocket. Not so bad of a deal, really.
Plus the guy is actually paying for the supplies?! Sounds like the deal is even sweeter.
Edited, Oct 29th 2007 9:20am by Leonai_art
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