Had my lease end inspection today. I prepared for it a week earlier by scrubbing and mopping the place so it would look spotless, in hope of getting some deposit money back.
Believe my surprise when the landlord and the person they brought along to inspect the apartment ended up marked about 35 spots O__o they marked the door and floor skirting, and parts of the floor that were already damaged before we moved in. As they inspected each room I would hear the sound of the masking tape being ripped repeatedly.
Despite showing them photos with timestamps from 2 years ago for most of the marks they declared to be our fault, they proposed that I would only have to pay 50% of the costs for rewallpapering/renewing the skirting, along with the basic cleaning fee and about ¥11,000 per AC unit. Oh I see, scam the foreigner huh.
Respectively I told them I wasn’t going to agree to anything until I 1) receive a written quote, 2) provide photo evidence of each of the marks they indicated, 3) call out some of the marks as general wear and tear which is covered in the initial agreement.
I think they were just trying to renovate the place and shake me down as much as possible. For example, there was one wall with 3 light marks (one of which I could barely make out) and they said that they would have to replace the whole wall paper. I get the impression this is common.
Any advice on what to do?
by souljoboytellem