Carol35
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We moved out our rental end of May after living in the house for over 5 years..being very good tenants and never being late or missing a month. Im so pee'ed off as just got the final deposit recon from landlord and as it turns out, we will land up paying her nearly 1k (so far as she is still waiting on a final quote for a repair). Also, when we moved out, we had carpets, house and garden cleaned up.
We initially shared the property with a flat but when those tenants moved out, we took over the flat too.
House was painted when we moved in, flat was not (she never did any inspection of flat when those tenants moved out) and she has charged us for painting the entire inside house and flat. Kitchen counter under the taps disintergrated from water (wear and tear??) and she has charged us to replace the entire kitchen counter. The toilet in the flat, the flush handle didnt work, just needed a catch and we have been charged R900 for this repair.
Also, our dogs chewed a window pane in the lounge, no ones fault really as we had a moron drive through our wall and while the repairs were taking place, our dogs had to be locked in the house for 2 weeks straight..we did mention numerous times of the urgency of getting the wall fixed to landlord while she was umming and ahhing with isurance etc. but it could do with just woodfiller and a revarnish however, she is still waiting on a quote for new window/repair.
We are more than willing to pay for repairs but seriously?? she has even charged us for masking tape/flat sheets/polyfiller(for what I dont know as we filled all our holes ourselves before moving out) etc..and Im sure I read somewhere she actually has an obligation to paint the inside of the house every 5 years?? This means we have just forked out over 6k for all her upgrades and making the house nice for her new tenants?
Do we have any rights at all here? Before I start screaming rental tribunal at her which I dont want to as we have always maintained a decent relationship but surely this is a rip-off? Also, its been 5 weeks since we moved out and we have only just received all the slips etc for repairs.
Any advice would be appreciated and sorry for long essay!
We initially shared the property with a flat but when those tenants moved out, we took over the flat too.
House was painted when we moved in, flat was not (she never did any inspection of flat when those tenants moved out) and she has charged us for painting the entire inside house and flat. Kitchen counter under the taps disintergrated from water (wear and tear??) and she has charged us to replace the entire kitchen counter. The toilet in the flat, the flush handle didnt work, just needed a catch and we have been charged R900 for this repair.
Also, our dogs chewed a window pane in the lounge, no ones fault really as we had a moron drive through our wall and while the repairs were taking place, our dogs had to be locked in the house for 2 weeks straight..we did mention numerous times of the urgency of getting the wall fixed to landlord while she was umming and ahhing with isurance etc. but it could do with just woodfiller and a revarnish however, she is still waiting on a quote for new window/repair.
We are more than willing to pay for repairs but seriously?? she has even charged us for masking tape/flat sheets/polyfiller(for what I dont know as we filled all our holes ourselves before moving out) etc..and Im sure I read somewhere she actually has an obligation to paint the inside of the house every 5 years?? This means we have just forked out over 6k for all her upgrades and making the house nice for her new tenants?
Do we have any rights at all here? Before I start screaming rental tribunal at her which I dont want to as we have always maintained a decent relationship but surely this is a rip-off? Also, its been 5 weeks since we moved out and we have only just received all the slips etc for repairs.
Any advice would be appreciated and sorry for long essay!
