The property manager did the property inspection today and left a letter on the bench telling me to 'vacuum and clean the stove top' (ok, the vacuuming hadn't been done for a week or so, but the stove had only been made messy from breakfast!) - for some odd reason she did not note down the paint on the carpet... or the paint on the curtains... or the missing lightshade from the lounge.
I'm guessing that this is because property managers for residential properties have to show that they're earning their fees, so if the landlord cares to ask he can be told that she left maintenance requirements with all the tenants. The fact that she missed the new hole in the bathroom wall (and the dog), while noting the dusting needed doing is beside the point. It's still required maintenance!
The problem for these residential p.m's is that the lease agreements are so broad as to be meaningless. Technically, I'm not allowed to use *blu-tac* for fear of marking the walls. It's not a hard injunction to follow: you can hardly find any spare wall space between the plethora of mis-matching boards, paint chips, screws, gouges, holes, nails and ancient wiring. I mean, part of my kitchen ceiling is made out of a door! None of the walls meet at right angles with the floor! And the carpet is the product of a colour-blind, art-hating accountant with a set-square and 3 shades of almost-green.
Posted by phreq at April 21, 2005 03:22 PM | TrackBack