Since the urine stains was in a few spots, and the carpet is fairly new – I told the tenant he could use the remnants to have repairs performed.
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terrible idea. Your carpet is going to look like shit…
There no professional that can “patch” a carpet and make it look like it’s not there.. It can come close, but not even…
I’m speaking from experience because at one point, someone had put a box with crap in a living room. When the person moved out, the box had leaked bleach all the way out of the box into the carpet, and the carpet was chewed up… We got a pro to to try to cut a remenant out and patch it…Looked like crap (and it was just a plain carpet, not berber or one with pattern)…
Look paramount. I’m saying this sincerely. But you really are being too nice to the tenant. Why do you let the tenant decide how you want things he broke fixed? It’s your house.. It should be under your terms…Why do you continue to accomodate this tenant so you can save him money, while wasting your valuable time, energy, and money? I can understand if this guy is your friend/relative and you like the person.. But this is a complete stanger who obviously doesn’t give a crap about you….So don’t be so nice.
I know my tenant has busted a screen door, and done a few things here and there. I’m not saying anything. When/if he moves out, I’ll just send him the bill. He can’t deny it since, I took pictures before he moved in, shared it with him. He did the pre-inspection checklist. If it costs my handman $100+ to install a new screen door, well that’s the tenants problem…not mine…I’m not going to go around town trying to find him the cheapest handman on my time, or try to make things convenient for his benefit.
Actually, what I did fwiw was not only did I give the tenant a preinspection checklist, I gave him access to the picasaweb album I created that showed pictures before he moved in. I made a copy of those pictures and gave it to him so that we’re on the same page when he moves out…
