I provide my tenant a refrig as a convience/courtesy; if it breaks it’s soley my discretion if I want to replace it – otherwise it’s on the tenant.
My tenant finally left for good today, I decided to pull up the carpet and determined the entire house needs to be re-carpeted (cat/dog urine stains).
Of course he (tenant) is denying any damage from his pets and blaming me.
He stated he spoke with an attorney who told him that I would have to prove a pet never was in the house prior to the tenants occupancy.
How do I prove I never has an animal in the house (which is the case)? (sorry for the thread hi jack)[/quote]
Didn’t you have a pre-inspection checklist? Prior to moving in, I took pictures of the my home and posted them to picasa…Showing the tenant the pictures as movein condition and going through the pre inspection checklist.
Regarding the fridge. For a SFH, that’s what I do with the fridge, washer,dryer. The lease states appliances provided only as a courtesy…Simply because for the SFH, people do rent without those appliances as well. And in some situations, having them in the house, the next tenant doesn’t want them because they have their own.
