Did you clean your apartment when you moved?

Gold Member Joined: Mar 08 2008 Posts: 2200

When I moved, I left the place spotless. I hired a cleaning lady who scrubbed the walls and the toilets. THe new tenants moved in the day after we moved out and we had hakaras hatov to our wonderful landlord that we left the place like brand new.
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seems like I'm one of a kind here, but I left my place in a pigsty LOL

I knew that they would be sending in a cleaning lady after I was gone, so I really did not put any effort into cleaning up.

and it didnt help that we were on pretty bad terms with our landlord.

OTOH, the people who left our new apartment apparently had to leave in a hurry, and had no time to clean it, so she gave me money and told me to get a cleaning lady at my own convenience which I thought was very thoughtful.

As the movers finished each room I picked up everything off the floor, there are always things that fall behind and under furniture, like coins, papers etc. Then I vacumed each room and swept the kitchen.

Platinum Member Joined: Nov 30 2006 Age: 28 Posts: 8702

We were not able to clean it as well as we would have liked, so we gave some money to our landlord to pay for it to be cleaned.

Posted: Thu, Jun 12 2008, 5:57 pm Post subject:

broom-clean ... empty house ... no pee on the toilets ... no grease on the ovens ... no scum in the sink ...

why is that so hard to consider - even if another person leaves an apt messy - why would you do that as well - doesn't reflect very good on oneself ... Confused

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Gold Member Joined: Mar 08 2006 Posts: 1045

Funny, but I have NO idea... I was busy packing out here, the same time my husband was finishing packing up there!!

[quote="Atali"]This is interesting, because in Australia it is part of the lease (in all four places that we lived in) that the house must be left absolutely spotless, meaning that the carpets must be professionally cleaned, ovens scrubbed, etc. If anything isn't done they take it out of the security deposit.[/quot

Ditto over here.

Gold Member Joined: Oct 27 2006 Posts: 2416 Location: NY

When we moved out of our apartment we vacuumed, mopped, cleaned out the fridge, the tub, the sinks...we went crazy....the truth is we were living in a condo owned by my in-laws so I sort of felt that I had to have the place spotless when we left

Executive Member Joined: Jun 05 2006 Posts: 296

I am moving tomorrow, but I kept the apartment for 2 more days to make sure it is clean. I won't say what it looks like now.

Executive Member Joined: Oct 18 2007 Posts: 394

it's part of the rent agreement to leave it clean.
cleaning agencies have a service called a 'vacating clean'
getting them in is much easier than doing it yourself.
but even if I know that an apt has to be left clean to a certain standard, I still had s/one come in to clean once we had it just to be sure.