When you are vacating a rented house, the most important thing on your mind will be how to get your bond back. In most cases, the bond is more than a couple grand, which means it pays to spend a bit of time ensuring your place is in a good condition. Some of the things you can do to ensure your place is in a good condition come right at the start of your lease, but a lot of it has to do with particular items and areas you need to clean well. Here is the three most important things you need to cross off your list to ensure you get the bond back.
Carpet Cleaning
A carpet is probably the most obvious feature that could be pointed to if it is not in the same condition as it was before. Getting a professional carpet cleaning service to go over the carpet in your home can cost a few hundred dollars, but if it saves you a few thousand dollars, it is a smart investment. A professional carpet cleaning company has techniques that go beyond vacuuming, and they often have special heat and water treatments that get deeply embedded dirt particles and stains out of the carpet. In some cases, a professional carpet cleaning will be part of the bond conditions itself, so make sure you double check it.
Photos
The best way to ensure you are not getting tricked or bamboozled by your landlord is to have evidence. It is good practice to always take photos when you move into a new place so that you can compare them at the start to what they look like at the end. This way, you can also dispute any problems with your bond payment if it gets held up. If your bond conditions are particularly strict, this could be the only way to guarantee you see any of it again.
Re-Arrange
Often, your landlord won't have a great idea of what the apartment looks like while you live there if they have no reason to visit. This means that they might see the house as messy or unclean if it doesn't match their memory of how it was at the start of the lease, even if it just a new layout. Make sure to re-arrange all the furniture and appliances to how they were when you moved in so that your landlord immediately feels at-home during the inspection. If you can, you should also try and get all your plumbing and electrical sockets checked (even if they weren't that good when you first arrived) so that there is nothing your landlord can point to.
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